Jamaican Idyll - Port Antonio, Jamaica - Jan 18 - Feb 1, 2007
We were exhausted when we sailed into the harbor at Port Antonio, Jamaica, but as soon as we cleared immigration and quarantine we walked into the town to have something to eat and a cold Red Stripe, the Jamaican beer. Port Antonio is a beautiful place with huge mountains surrounding it, and coral reefs and turquoise water (which is not the case in Luperon…). It was too bad that Scott had to leave the next morning to go back to work. But Alberto decided to stay one more week than planned, which turned out to be a great two weeks in Port Antonio. We did a couple day sails, and then started to fish.
The first day, Alberto got a Tuna on the hook, but after 10 minutes of fighting we lost it -- so disappointing. But the next couple of days, we each caught a tuna, so we had fresh fish for several lunches and dinners.
There’s nothing so good as fish you catch yourself, but the lobsters we bought from a local fisherman weren’t too bad either. The days passed by with more fishing and swimming, and we ate good, healthy food, since they have a great market here for vegetables and fruits.
On January 30, Alberto and I took a cab to Kingston, and he left for New York, just as Jen arrived.
It was great to see Jen again, after more than a month apart, and also exciting to show her Sea Quill, since she had only seen the boat in photos. We arrived after dark, and the next morning, we had fresh fruit salad for breakfast, and then dinghied (in our little rubber boat) out to the reef and snorkeled for awhile: quite a change for Jen, who left freezing cold Brooklyn just the day before. She had a couple of days in paradise, until it was time to lift out Sea Quill, and a week of hard work on land began.
I would
like to thank both Scott and Alberto for all of their hard work in the first
month. We had hoped for more sailing, but without them I would still be
in Luperon.