Admiralty Bay, Bequia, The Grenadines

This morning turned out to the calmest so far and we decided after a fairly leisurely start following another dawn chorus from the local livestock, to take a walk ashore. Kevin had been anxiously awaiting the reopening of the fishing tackle shops after the Christmas closure and he was finally rewarded today. Both of our two reels had now officially given up, though being bought for Mackerel fishing in the Irish sea they hadn’t really been up to the job anyway, letting a couple of bigger fish escape much to Kevin’s anguish.

Therefore, this morning we bit the bullet and bought two Penn reels, which Kevin assure me are the thing to have. Obviously this also meant two new special diving lures coming highly recommended by the shop owner who, to be fair, did seem very knowledgeable. He also then needed line and more shackles, plus also some new sunglasses seemed to sneak in. However, we are apparently now full equipped and as soon as we got back to the boat Kevin was straight on to refitting the rods in eager anticipation of our next trip out.

This afternoon, with the wind finally below 30 knots since the first time we arrived we finally got to go diving just outside the harbour at a popular reef called Devil’s Table. I was boatman today and Kevin diving. The water immediately inshore was quite murky but when we got out to the West Cardinal marker it was so clear you could see the bottom. Kevin jumped in and I tried to guard his track from the yacht dingies and local fishing boats going overhead. There were also dozens of yachts out sailing, one French catamaran which tried to cut the corner to go over the reef which in places is literally just below the surface.

Kevin emerged after about 30 minutes, having had a thoroughly good dive down to about 10m, with lots of fish life and coral and surfacing beside a chimney type structure about 10m in height which nearly breaks the surface at the top.