True Blue Bay, Grenada

Tuesday morning another busy start to return the keys for the hire jeep and set Alex and Kevin off on the final two dives of their package. Kevin was going to be diving Bianca C a famous local wreck of a 600ft cruise liner which sunk after a fire offshore but was a regular visitor to the island from Italy. Alex was doing a reef dive to complete her underwater photography module and then they would dive the Veronica L wreck together for Alex’s wreck diving speciality.


Dive 1 - Alex's photography


Dive 4 - Alex's photography


Dive 4 - Alex's first Wreck dive - the Veronica L


Dive 5 - Resident seahorse on the Veronica L


Dive 5 - Kevin on the Veronica L

After spending a couple of hours going through our post which had been brought out by Donna, Sean and I headed out to make the most of his last day. I took him on one of the local reggae buses to Grand Anse beach where we met with Donna and Mark and had a roti which Sean had not yet tried before heading to the beach to swim in the crystal clear waters. I left him there to head back and let Alex and Kevin back into the boat and take them their roti’s coming back later to collect Sean having had plenty of sun to improve his colour before he grabbed his bags at the boat and headed to the airport, being the only ones on the bus back we persuaded the driver to take him to the airport. We said our goodbyes, but Sean has vowed to be a regular visitor and we hope to see him again before the end of the year. We got a text to say he was safely at the airport, checked in with a Carib watching the cricket, so he was sorted.

When they returned from diving Alex, Kevin and I took to the hotel pool to escape the heat on the boat where Alex completed the theory lessons for her PADI course from her book. She needs to hand this in the next day to make sure she completes everything in time before she leaves. Kevin had a swim and went straight to sleep, after a deep dive that morning and all the running around we are both shattered.

Kevin, Alex and I took the opportunity to have a family meal together on the boat that evening, Alex getting to eat the last piece of our Mahi Mahi with us, which she thoroughly approved us. We also saw Kate & Jonny for a quick beer as they called by say their goodbyes before they head off for Bonaire having finally received the Raymarine parts they had been waiting for that afternoon having been stuck in customs since Thursday. Again, it is strange to be saying goodbye to Kate and Jonny with whom we have been in regular contact for months all the way through our planning and cruising until now. However, we said that as we had been the forward reccy party this long having been slightly ahead of them until Grenada, it was their turn to search out all the best spots in the Pacific. Hopefully we will see them when they settle in Australia for Jonny’s 2 year transfer to the Sydney office.