My Favourite Island in the Caribbean!
We have been sailing for about one year now. Right now, we are on an island in the Azores, which is called Faial. We have been here for about one week. We started our sail from Sweden in June 2005 and from Sweden we sailed to Denmark, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and Portugal. From Cascais, close to Lisbon, we sailed 3 days to the Madeira Group and then 2 days to the Canary Islands. It was from a little island in the Canaries, called La Gomera, we started our sail over the Atlantic to t he Caribbean, which took about 3 weeks. On the fifteenth of December at 0040 am UTC we arrived to St Lucia in the Caribbean.

Now, I am going to tell about my favourite island in t he Caribbean! My favourite island in the Caribbean is Grenada. We were in Grenada a lot. We were for almost 3 weeks in a bay on Grenada called “True Blue Bay”. That was our favourite bay in Grenada. We were mostly anchored in the bay, but in the beginning, we were in the marina.

Every evening we went to a bar where it was “Happy Hour” between five and six. There, you could have a drink for half price. The “Virgin Piña Colada” was very good! I had it sometimes, but when I didn’t have it, I had “Ting” or something else. While it was Happy Hour the boat kids collected bottle caps. That was very fun!
At the bar in True Blue Bay while it is Happy hour. Photo by Leon
On Grenada it was a person called “Cat Eye”. He could drive you around the whole island. He had a yellow car and yellow sunglasses. When he drove us around the island he told us about the things we passed. At special places, he stopped the car, so we could go out and look. He drove us to the waterfalls, chocolate company, a beach with bulls and palm trees and a place with lots of growing fruits and spices like pineapple, guava, coco bean, star fruit, melon and cinnamon.

In the waterfalls you could swim! That’s what we did together with friends. The water in the waterfalls was freshwater and cold! Much colder than in the sea, where it was 27°C.
The waterfalls. Photo by Leon.
In the chocolate company you could see how you make chocolate. You could also try it.

The beach with bulls and palm trees on was a nice beach. There were bulls walking around in it, and there were palm trees on too! My Dad and I took lots of photos on that beach.
The beach with bulls and palmtrees.
The place with growing fruits and spices was next to the chocolate company. Cat Eye told us about the different fruits and spices. We could also try some of them.

After a whole day with Cat Eye it was time too go back to True Blue Bay. He drove us there and at 5 o’clock we went off t he car by the bar. We made it exactly for Happy Hour.

In True Blue Bay, there were two pools where you could swim on t he day when it was the hottest. There, it was nice to cool down. In one of the pools we learnt to scuba dive. Jonathan, other boatkids and I took a diving course from a dive teacher there. First, in the morning, we watched a movie and had a lesson. After that, we dove in the pool and practised doing different things under water that we had learnt at the lesson.

Scuba-diving in the pool. Photo by Karolina
Then, we went home and had lunch, and when we came back in the after noon, we took a boat out somewhere and dove in the real sea! It was meant that you could see sea horses there but I didn’t see any. I dove down to the bottom of the sea (7m), but it took time until I succeeded. The other boat kids continued doing diving more than just the first day to get a diver’s certificate but Jonathan and I didn’t. The other boat kids needed to read a very thick book and study a lot.
Grenada is really my favourite island in the Caribbean and I know that Mum, Dad and Jonathan liked it too!