Grocery Shopping in the Caribbean
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| Anchorage in Tobago Cays |
So we're in Tobago Cays. This is a lagoon teeming with sea turtles swimming in a sanctuary. Cool snorkeling, but there's a problem..........no restaurants. No food stores. Nothing. We start eating down our provisions from October/November's long sail from DC to Tortola.........beefaroni (yum)...........chicken chili.........(also a yumfest). We get brave and buy a red snapper from a fisherman. The freaking thing has a spine that's like a telephone cable. I make a mess cleaning it. Scales, spines, other gooey stuff I can't even identify..........then I don't cook it long enough. Kirstin observes me butchering this poor fish and tries to be supportive, yet I sense her fear of eating this fish I destroyed. Yuck. I feel sick just looking at it.
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| Reading spot on the beach |
There are 6-7 restaurants we really like here in Bequia..........we will be visiting all of them. I'm done with cooking on the boat (for a while). Kirstin is a great cook but I limit her (unfairly, some would say) to recipes featuring oreo cookies, mangoes, and doritos. She does her best, but...........
As the number of cruisers bold enough to sail near the hurricane zone is dwindling, we're seeing the same people island after island. Hans and Hazel (love them).........Christoph and Dagmar (very funny and engaging)..........some not so friendly Carib 1500 boats (who will remain nameless because their boats and sailing skills warrant that). More to come..........always more to come.
Special shout out to our new BFFLs from Colorado (you know who you are). Times are tough but they'll get better. Time makes everything better. We will be seeing you soon.
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| 3 foot lizard is dead-center |