Weather forecast was for a windy day with intermittent sunshine, so we abandoned plans to go to the trickier anchorage off Spanish point in the reef and opted for the safer anchorage off Coco point. It is a truly amazing beach, long wide brilliant white sand, quite a few guides call it Princess Diana’s beach, it may be its name. It is so remote here except for De Niro’s monstrosity, there is a lot of talk of him bribing his way in, upsetting the local Barbudians. When Britain gave tiny Barbuda independence they were forced into joining governance with Antigua, but as they have such a small population, it appears Antigua calls the shots. All the facilities are for the development so the bar, kite school etc are only for residents, us yachties are only allowed on the beaches below the high water mark. It would have been slightly more palatable if the buildings were sympathetic, not huge double story monsters on a flat island.
Viridian before we left Uncle Roddy’s
Rowan checking the anchor, with De Nero’s hideous development behind
Princess Diana beach, very special, god knows how they allowed it to be so badly developed
Greg and Jan came over too, so that we can walk to Nobu (restaurant) tomorrow. We went for a walk with them around the spit of beach heading towards Spanish point, but we were thwarted by the construction work. We opted to go for a snorkel on the reef in the sunshine. Parts of the reef had some nice coral and fish but a lot was dead. We did see a sting ray, a huge lobster and an enormous puffer fish with its enormous eyes.
Gob smackingly gorgeous beach
Trying to walk around to Spanish point
Greg, Rowan, Miranda and Jan
Viridian had us over for a BBQ and Shithead (card game!) session. The weather kiboshed the bbq but we did have very tasty sausages from the oven. Loads of rounds of cards, only Rowan managing to escape being Shithead, lots of laughs.
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