Chatham Bay to Tyrrel Bay

Hi everyone,

Yesterday we sailed the 10nm from Chatham Bay on Union Island in the SVGs to Tyrrel Bay on Carriacou island in Grenada.  It was a nice 2 hour sail on a beam to close reach.

Carriacou Ahoy!

Here are our track and graphs...

Track

Arrival Track

Graphs

We had a nice ESE breeze but sadly the sky was overcast and hazy.  For the last two weeks we've had hazy weather caused by dust blown across from the Sahara.  The red dust accumulating on the boat is now very obvious.  We wash it off the decks but it will take a good downpour of rain to get it off the rig.

Departing Chatham Bay

We cleared-in to Grenada at the Carriacou Marina on the S side of the bay.  Others have had a long wait but it took us only 10 minutes.  The Marina Office was able to change Euros to EC Dollars to assist our clearance which cost EC$120.  

Anchored in Tyrrel Bay

Steep path to/from Carriacou Marina

After clearing we had lunch at Iguanas Cafe which is alongside the Marina Office and Customes & Immigration.  We then walked from the marina into town to explore.  We found the ATM next to the Alexis supermarket.  It would have been easier to dinghy across but the walk was good exercise.

There are several rickety jetties along the E side of the bay.  But its easy to go directly ashore on the sandy beach.  There's a substantial jetty adjacent to the marina on the NE side of the bay.  This is best for walking to Paradise Beach on the N side of the island.  There are large green bins along the beachside road which - we're told - are available to cruisers for rubbish disposal.

We discovered we were anchored only 100m from UK sv Matusadona.  We last saw them in the Canaries late last year.  We went ashore with them yesterday afternoon to the Paradise Beach Bar where we painted wooden boat signs for display in the bar.  Good fun and nice to catch up with them.  Kiwi friends on sv Cerulean also arrived yesterday and we joined them ashore for dinner at the Gallery Bistro.

At the Paradise Beach Bar

'Artist' at work?

With the Matusadonas

The name of the bay is interesting.  All charts show it as Tyrrel and all maps as Tyrell.  A ferry's name uses Tyrrel so we've gone with that here!

Looking forward to exploring Carriacou over the next few days.

Trust all's well where you are.