Bequia is known to be a great island for sailors. They have blue clean waters so you can swim right off your boat, a spacious anchorage in the main town, plenty of dinghy docks, decent waste management, and lots of places to explore onshore reachable by foot. All important criterias for sailors 😊
We spent the first two nights at anchor in Friendship Bay, which is one of only two recommended places to anchor on the island. There were no boats when we arrived, and we were joined by one boat before sunset. A hotel onshore supplied us with some good wifi, which just reached the boat with good help from our booster antenna. Anchoring outside hotels and visiting the hotel bar for a drink to aquire the wifi password has become part of our routine at new anchorages.
We moved along to the main anchorage in the town of Port Elizabeth, where we anchored off Princess Margareth beach. There were probably 50-60 boats in the bay. However, it didn’t feel extremely crowded, as the bay is so large. But, we do usually prefer quieter anchorages with fewer boats.
Even with many sailboats going back and forth all the time, you do tend to cross paths with the same boats several times. For the third time during the past couple of weeks, we were by chance next to a charter boat consisting of three Norwegian couples. They had their last day before leaving, and gave us two pieces of the iconic Norwegian chocolate ‘Kvikk Lunsj’. This is THE chocolate Norwegians eat for Easter and when enjoying the outdoors.
We of course had to explore the little, cute town of Port Elizabeth with its colorful houses and lush hills.
After our hike, we ended up at the quirky Treehouse Bush Bar with great views of the town and the bay. It was in deed a very cool place, we walked a path some 400 meters from the road into the forrest to find it.
We got tipped by a friend to dive the boulders, which is a dive on the South western coast. We went with the boat as we sailed from Bequia, as it was too far from the anchorage to go with the dinghy. Unfortunately, there was no way to anchor for us in the little bay, so no dive. But we did get some nice pictures of the very cool Moonhole houses onshore. It used to be a hotel, but all of them seemed abandoned now.
Next stop, St Vincent!