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how's quarantine treating you Senor Zeus

being are you comfortable you don't look

very happy

Zeus it's not out of it

you don't even want to play do you don't

even want to play

last time when sailing valid Chandra we

showed you 27 things we didn't know but

wish we did when we came to the

Caribbean if you're new to the channel

I'm Dan and I'm Noelle and we're sailing

vali Chandra we're from Halifax Nova

Scotia and we are sailing around the

Caribbean and right now we're in Grenada

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that button hey guys so we have

completed our quarantine we did our two

weeks here in Grenada in the designated

quarantine Anchorage and it was long and

a bit drawn-out but not too bad they've

rained a little bit so we were able to

refill our water tanks a couple times

which was great we did a few things to

keep busy you know played some games and

watched a lot of movies and you know

that sort of things but we got through

it and at the end of the quarantine we

received an email that said we can go to

the quarantine dock at Port Louis Marina

and st. George's which we did you take a

dinghy in there and then you tie up on a

long dock with all these other days that

are also finishing their quarantine on

the same day we kind of got in line and

we're supposed to save six feet apart

and wait to have our Cove 8:19 test so

we have the actual cove 819 test there's

two tests there's the PCR test and the

rapid test we received the rapid test

which is done with a blood sample

that's the cheaper and easier way to do

it they have a result within like 15 or

20 minutes or something like that versus

the PCR test which is a swab that goes

into the back of your nasal cavity and I

believe that takes like three days to

get a result so we were able to not only

complete our quarantine but pass our

Cove 8:19 test and enter the island all

in the same day which was great well

it's done we got our Cove in nineteen

test here in Grenada done on shore and

Noel and I both tested negative so we

don't have Cove in nineteen so now we're

off to do our customs paperwork and yeah

there's another line I put the customs

building because everybody was kind of

doing this at the same time so we had to

wait quite a while after our customs

were completed and everything was done

we were able to go and have a beer and

you know enjoy being on land for the

first time in two weeks which was really

we were a little bit concerned about

paperwork for the dog here in Grenada

but it turns out to be quite easy to

bring your dog into Grenada there's very

few questions they scanned our health

certificate briefly and that was it so

if you're bringing your dog to Grenada

it shouldn't be too much of a problem

the Grenada is part of the windward

Island chain and includes the

southernmost islands of the Grenadines

they're beautiful islands have sheltered

Anchorage's high-quality marinas and

boat yards and a good range of yachting

and marine facilities cruisers typically

come here to Grenada to escape the

hurricane zone st. George's is the

capital city of the Caribbean island of

Grenada the town is surrounded by a

hillside of an old volcano crater and is

a horseshoe shaped Harbor st. George's

was founded by the French in 1650 when

the grenade the original name for the

island was colonized by jacques de alden

pop gained the governor of Martinique

carnival takes place the second week of

August we'll be here to participate in

this one our first real carnival since

coming to the Caribbean st. George's has

a humid tropical monsoon climate the

average temperature is about 30 degrees

Celsius one thing Grenada is famous for

are mangoes and you can buy them right

on the street people are walking around

with mangoes and selling them you can

stock up the boat for a pretty good

price

it's been really hot here in Grenada we

got out our wind scoop for the first

time we found the wind scoop to be

pretty nice for bringing air into the

boat and washing air out of the boat and

keeping us cool so we have this tropical

wave thing coming through that we're

dealing with here off and on it brings a

fair bit of rain and high wind the rain

is really good because we can fill our

water tanks the high wind not so good

but we just put out more chain and we

trust our anchor and it seems to be good

so far every once in a while we'll look

at the deck and we'll say holy cow it's

turning like orange it's actually this

sand dust from the Sahara Desert making

its way all the way across the Atlantic

Ocean

hitting us it's crazy another thing you

have to be aware of when you're here in

Grenada is dinghy theft most of the

boats around us that have davits are

keeping their dinghies raised under the

water at night we don't have a DAB at

dinghy raising system on Bali Chandra

some of the other cruisers we noticed

are suspending their dinghy from a

halyard on the side of the boat I've

seen that done in other YouTube channels

so we decided to give it a shot we use

one of our spinnaker halyard and I

rigged up a special line to attach to

the transom of the dinghy and we were

able to lift it out of the water at

night it's a lot easier than pulling the

motor off every night and you know then

still leaving your dinghy in the water

this way we feel a lot better to have

both my dinghy and the motor out of the

water safe from theft and safe from you

know waves and nasty conditions that

might cause your dinghy to break free

and we've seen so many thing he's lost

here there are no coin-operated laundry

mats we found out just yesterday how

expensive it is to do laundry here in

Bermuda it's quite expensive being

Canadians our money is exactly 50% of

the Eastern Caribbean dollar we found

out that in order to do our laundry here

it would cost us roughly $30 Canadian to

do one load which is absurd back home at

a coin-operated laundry place we'd

probably pay maybe $8 a load that would

be an expensive float maybe $5 below in

some laundromats so we're doing our own

laundry right here on deck we washed all

our laundry on deck here in a bucket

with some sea water and some soap and

then we hung it out on the lifelines to

rinse in the rain and then dry in the

Sun I mean you can always expect rain

here in Grenada it seems to rain pretty

often just as soon as we finished our

quarantine I borrow this Barracuda

heavy-duty sewing machine from a friend

so we could repair our mainsail no patch

was required as it was simply just

stitches that have come out the

Barracuda is a heavy-duty sewing machine

for sewing canvas Dacron and other heavy

materials and perfect for sail repair it

runs on power but also has a hand

turning crank so you can run it without

any power or

the inverter it didn't take that long we

put several lines of stitching and her

mainsail should be good to go we stayed

in st. George's for about a week just

last night the Coast Guard asked us to

move they told us it's not an approved

Anchorage so we left without any

argument and move north to grand mal Bay

grand mal is a very small community

we're excited to check it out the

holding here isn't great but we did set

our anchor in sand

and we made short by snorkeling and

checking the anchor before the Sun went

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why are we confined to such a small

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that's all he does now licking and

scratching licking and scratching I'm

starting to worry that he's got a little

skin issue going on Zeus

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