Union Island

Hello from Union Island in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Tobago Cays). We have arrived safely but could not send my last blog entry. This is a hub of boats. Union Island is the place where all boaters must “check in” at customs. Let me explain how this works, after we anchor in another country we fly a yellow “Q” flag. This means to the officials that we are new and will be checking in. The Captain of the boat, Dave, goes in with all our passports, ownership of the boat, crew list (3 copies), and other docs and usually some money. After he comes back we start flying the flag of that country up on our mast. Our big Canadian flag is always on the back of our boat. Now we are good to go to any island existing in this country. There are many islands we want to see here in Tobago. We arrived around 11am this morning to beautiful aquamarine blue waters..... spectacular. I will attach photos separately as I am always afraid I will lose connection and my stuff goes into cyberspace. There are many boats from Europe here and a couple sailboats with a Canadian flag on them.

Last night was the first night it did not rain so we pray that happens again tonight.... up so many times closing those hatches. I did some laundry today, which entails washing in salt water then rinsing with fresh water from our tanks (we ration as we have to buy at about .25 cents a gallon). We have lots of drinking water on reserve too, it was free in Grenada before we left Bernhard's house.

We went into the small village to walk around, we bought some key limes, tomatoes for our fajitas tonight, 1 orange to try and of course, we bought chocolate and pops. I bought some Tostitos chips and it cost over $6 U.S..... I checked the expiry date and they have traveled far to get here but they will be so good tonight with fresh salsa we bought in Grenada. Mmmmmm!

We are heading toward St. Vincent tomorrow, a big day of traveling. We are not sure if we will make it all the way, but no worries, lots of bays to spend the night. All the islands are close together in Tobago. Ciao for now and we are thinking of all our friends.