Happy New Years 2018

January 8th, 2018
Happy New Year to all
We have had a great December.  During our stay here in Green Turtle and Man Jack.  We have met a lot of the seasonal cruiser that are here every year between November and January.  The nice thing is they know most of the locals, the schedules of what to do and where to shop, snorkel and so on.  We seem to have melded with a small group of about 10 boats, where they are mostly from Nova Scotia.  I have to say that in all my years of sailing (which is a lot), I have never met a nicer group of people.  I’m sorry we missed the Christmas potluck dinner at Sundowners bar, but we did not know about it in time to put something together to bring.  We did however met many cruisers at the Friday night crews gathering at Dave's Liquor store.  This gathering start at the liquor store/bar and then migrates down to “2 Shorties” (it's a takeout restaurant and you sit on picnic benches outside).  Their food is great and very reasonable prices.  The gang then works its way to Pineapples and finishes the night there.  Needless to say, we didn’t make it past 2 Shorties and headed home.
New Year’s Eve we stayed home, anchored outside of New Plymouth.  This was a great spot to watch the fireworks and we could still hear all the music, without dealing with the crowds.  Kevin was in bed early, but I stayed up till after midnight.  January 1st was Junkanoo, most of you have seen all the photos posted on facebook.  The parade was all locals and they make their costumes here.  Each year is a different theme and they have already started working on next year.  This year was candy land.  The kids were so cute in their outfits and dancing and singing.  New Years evening there was another firework display off the park and we were able to watch it sitting on the back deck at our marina.  I have to say, it was better than anything I have seen stateside.
Since we have been having such high winds and fronts coming through, we have taken a slip in black sound at Donny’s Marina.  Donny is a very nice man, who is concerned about all the boats docked and moored.  He is out there checking them every time we have high winds.  This is one place we will definitely come to next year. Well I have you up to date so very winds and happy sailing my friends.