Freeman's Bay, English Harbour, Antigua

Today we had a fairly leisurely day, Ian and Tracy came over to swap iPods back and everyone agreed they were ready for a quiet night. I did a bit of reading, swimming and catching up on the blog whilst Kevin prepared one of his favourites ginger chicken which he cooks in the pressure cooker to save gas and results in falling off the bone tender chicken which he assured me I would like. To economise the gas, of which we have limited supplies, he brings it up to pressure two to three times during the afternoon and switches off the heat which results in a slow cooker type affect. After the second pressurisation we decided to go for a walk ashore to the headland opposite us, Fort Berkley.


Kevin taking aim

The fort now consists of a guardhouse, powder store and one canon though the original emplacements and walls still stand and it gave a lovely viewpoint out to sea. The headland is quite stunning and the water clear though crashing in, undercutting the stone to create low arches from centuries of wear. We had a quick beer in the old Galley building but there were lots of very loud yachties in there who were disturbing our quiet reading of the free yachting newspapers with their tales of poor service on airlines etc and their witty and usually rude retorts to the poor staff which is rarely interesting when retold. We retired to the boat where Kevin had promised me The War of The Worlds album (recent swap from Ian & Tracy) followed by chicken. Perhaps not every newly wed vegetarians dream evening, but I have to say I did enjoy both. I am not sure I would yet order chicken from a menu over fish for example, but we’ll see.


Fort Berkley