Friday, July 6, 2012

I Don't Like Cricket Oh No I Love It

I forgot to mention that we stayed a night in St Kitts on the way from St Martin to Antigua and that we had an uneventful motor to Antigua before our eventful week there.Then it was a reasonable sail toward Dominica for the cricket.Had to motor in the last  3 or 4 hours  'cos although we were sailing it wasn't quite in the right direction.There is this trick called tacking but sod that.....we wanted to get to the 3rd and final test between the W.Indies and Oz..As it turned out we picked up the radio broadcast of the first day for pretty much the whole time we were motoring in.Kewl.
So as we motored in to the anchorage Australia managed to lose about 4 wickets and it was looking like the Windies were going to give them a good fight.More about that later.  Must remember to keep this short.I'm still 2 months behind.Right....we got closer to the anchored boats and there were our old (young actually)friends from way back in Cape May and N.Y Philip (Pip just doesn't sit with me)and Heather from Picaroon.After a few Mango Daquiries we arranged for Pip (ok it doesn't sound right but it's shorter to type)(or it was before I explained it)to come to the cricket with us.He's a good English lad and appreciates the game .That's him with Gail as we walked through the gates to this picturesque ground.It was good day.So was the last one but I must move on.If you want to see lots of good photos and more details about places we've been you should check out Picaroons blog as they've been 3 or 4 weeks in front of us most of the way and they don't use half of their time whinging about computers. picaroonblog.com will save us both a lot of time!!   Meanwhile a couple shots from the beautiful Dominica and I'm off for abit of lunch.Stay tuned for the next exciting episode when Jabiru takes of SAILING all the way to the Froggy Isles.Allright then.........as usual as I try to finish off in a calm and happy mood .........the damn photos are going anywhere they please.                      
I'm outa here.

2 comments:

  1. We were in Grenada when there was an Old English players vs Old Caribbean match and the boats in the anchorage organised a coach. The only trouble was they were all from the U.S and so Andrew had to type and distribute the rules of cricket! Old England lost.....

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  2. Thanks for the shout-out! Great pic of Philip and Gail - can you send to me? Miss you guys!

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