June 3, 2001 -- Around to Prickley Bay

We flipped on the weather this morning to Eric saying that there was no wind anywhere in the Caribbean today. Even Grenada which always has wind was reporting calm conditions. We decided to take advantage of that and head around to Prickley Bay on the south coast of Grenada.

It was a grueling long distance of 8 miles or so. Seriously though, it was a mostly pleasant move, though after we rounded the South West corner, of course, we had the wind on the nose!

We dropped anchor, splashed the dinghy and I headed in to clear in to customs and immigration. Unfortunately, because it was Sunday I had to head into St. Georges to check in. As I was about to go in a cab, when Steve and Nancy from Tahoe pulled up in their rental car. Steve drove me to St Georges to clear in. The amusing part was that only immigration was open! I would still need to clear customs tomorrow.

On our way back to the marina, Steve and I stopped by the grocery store. Then I headed back to the boat.

That evening, we went into the marina for happy hour, actually a happy hour and a half at the marina bar. We spent the evening catching up with Steve and Nancy since we haven't seen them since Martinique.
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