We were told it would be hot and dry down here in Trinidad at this time of year. We’re not seeing that.
Yesterday our ‘mission’ was to tour the Chaguaramas area and look at all the stores and services finding the best places to buy the things on our list. We left around 9am and chained the Dinghy up at the Tropical dock. We made it as far as the local Budget Marine before the heavens open for the first time during daylight. We waited in the store until the rain lessened and made our way back to the dinghy – the paths we had come along were now ankle deep in water.
We abandoned the plan to visit everything in the morning and headed back to the boat to dry off and have lunch. In the afternoon we dinghied over to Crewsinn to look at the shops and services there and then over to the Power Boats marina dock and to complete our exploration.
We did a lot of wandering through boat yards looking at the boats on the hard for the summer. We saw a few we recognised including a couple already mentioned in this blog. Marcia – if you’re still reading, Mimi looks fine.
It rained some more while we were walking around but we managed to get back to Dignity before it really poured again, this time almost half filling the dinghy.
We did receive notification in the morning that our batteries and paint had been unloaded which seemed odd as the ship was supposed to arrive on Wednesday. We later learned there had been a miscommunication. Our goods were on the boat and it arrived normally so we should see them either Thursday evening or, more likely, some time Friday.
We did acquire a couple of items. We bought a new security chain for the Dinghy and some waterproof grease for the shaft seals. We finished off Wednesday evening with a visit to Joe’s pizza. The food was delicious including the best garlic bread I’ve tasted in a long time.
We’ve now had two good nights sleep. I need to reset my clock a little as I’m now falling asleep too early and waking up even earlier than normal.
Today, we are considering taking the local bus to the nearby malls and, maybe, into Port of Spain.
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