What can I say? We love Grenada. The people are wonderful and the mangoes abundant. We choose to haul the boat in Grenada because it is considered below the hurricane belt (never mind about Janet and Ivan). But it is hot, hot, hot. It is also the rainy season which creates mud and mosquitoes. This is the time of year when we have no income and work the hardest (which really makes sense because you couldn't pay me enough to do some of the jobs that need to be done in the boatyard). What makes it all bearable is the camaraderie with other boaters also stranded on the hard. There are the two guys from Fiji getting a long-neglected catamaran ready for the 8,000 mile trip home. There's the couple from South Africa who left a career with a top multi-national company to sail around the world. There are cruisers from Canada who's paths we have crossed in the Grenadines and the VI over the past year and who will certainly be friends for life. Plus, this year we are taking a vacation which will break up our time in the boat yard. It's all good!
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