Travis' Journal

Recently we sailed from Rodney Bay to the Pitons and had a good sail and only Kara got seasick.  It is also Australia Day!  I tried fishing with our new fishing rod but caught nothing.  I was inside most of the time listening to music and playing truth and dare.  Kara got sick as soon as we got to the Pitons but luckily mum brought her a bucket (but it was still disgusting).  Some boat boys helped us hook onto a mooring and took our rubbish but 5 minutes later we saw it floating in the water!

Willilabou - Pirates of the Caribbean

We then sailed from the Pitons, St Lucia to Willilabou , St Vincent.  This is where the Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed.  It was a pretty rough journey and we all got seasick except Mum and Dad.  Beau was the first one to chuck and then Kara because she saw Beau spewing, but I didn’t barf, I had a massive headache though.  So it was a pretty bad and long ride but when we arrived at Willilabou we were all excited to see the set of Pirates of the Caribbean.  We had some church time because it was Sunday and then went ashore.  There was a shed with coffins near it (but there were no bodies in them) so Mum took a photo of us standing in them!  We found a track

that led to some chooks in cages and fruit trees. 

But as soon as we tried going over to pick up some fruit five dogs approached us.  Luckily they were friendly.. Dad took some photos of the view from the hill while we found the movie running from the back of the pub.

We also sailed from Bequia to Carriacou.  The journey wasn’t that bad but I had a headache for a bit of the time.  We put a line in and while in the channel we caught a little barracuda. It was the first fish caught with our new rod.  We put the line in again and caught a little tuna.  Dad must have hit them in the wrong spot because there was heaps of blood.  When we got to shore Dad went ashore and cleared customs and then we went to another beach around the corner.  We all then went for a swim and Kara showed how far she could swim under water (which is pretty far for a 6 year old).  Then Beau showed us how big his bombies are.  Then we had fish and chips for dinner.

We moved spots in the bay of Tyrell in Carriacou.  Dad said we were too close to another boat called “True Blue” for comfort.  Beau made a pretty cool cubby house that he slept in last night.  Then we went for our first swim of the day to find my rashie that blew off the boat railing but we had no luck.  When we were coming back from snorkeling Kara and I saw some pretty big fish all swimming around trying to eat the bait fish.  Kara claimed that they were trumpet fish but I didn’t have a clue what they were.  In the afternoon Mum and I went ashore for a walk.  We went a long way and saw heaps of goats.  Mum asked an old lady what the goats were doing and the lady said they were sheep! We didn’t know what to call them so we made up the name “shoats”, a cross between sheep and goats!

We met some new friends from South Africa. Their names are Oscar and Finn.  Oscar is 7 and Finn is 9.  They have a cat onboard which can swim.  They said that it had even swum to shore and back.  They have a really thick black rope out the back of their boat for the cat to climb up if it swims to shore.  They invited us to swing off their boat because they have a swing going from their mast.  We then went to shore and Finn and Oscar showed us how to skim on bodyboards.  Beau knew how to do it but I couldn’t get it.  Clare, Heather and Kara came along and then we had even more fun.  Then after some fun we said goodbye to the boys and we took a very long time to get back to the yacht on the SUP.