06-05-2014, 12:56 PM
Thanks all - will try to dig up some more photos later - takes me some time to select , resize and upload (darn slow connection).
RW - sailing the caribbean at 21!! that must've been grand. Anguilla does have a long sailing history (like many of those islands). Many boats would come into that 1st beach (Mead's bay) for lunch at Blanchard's. Apparently that is "a thing" - to come over from St Mattin/St Marteen for the day. The bigger boats/yachts were at another bay a bit up th coast.
Was trying to think of interesting things from our trip (ala JeannieB's Montserrat report) but we didn't really do much - eat, read on the beach, swim - some snorkeling. I did flip a sunfish sailboat and was able to right it, salvage the daggerboard, and get going again - so that was some excitement.
The BnD bbq was Sunday night and they had the local radio station on. After a bit of music, there was about an hour of what was clearly a political rally. Beyond the screeching presenter/speaker you'd hear the pause and then the "car horn sound" - hard to put into words but that "bwaaa bwaaa bwaaa bwaannnn" - similar to Jamaican dancehall and call-in shows I sometimes hear.
Anyway, I asked the owner lady what was going on and she proceeded to tell me that is the AUM (Anguilla United Movement), one of 3 political parties and they were campaigning for the next election. I asked when is the election (thinking next week or something). Her:"In February". Me: "February?, like 9 or 10 months from now"? yep. Oh boy. From a later conversation with her and others I gathered that local opinion of politics/politicians is similar to many JA opinions ("politricks", "corruption", "dem tek wi fi idiot").
RW - sailing the caribbean at 21!! that must've been grand. Anguilla does have a long sailing history (like many of those islands). Many boats would come into that 1st beach (Mead's bay) for lunch at Blanchard's. Apparently that is "a thing" - to come over from St Mattin/St Marteen for the day. The bigger boats/yachts were at another bay a bit up th coast.
Was trying to think of interesting things from our trip (ala JeannieB's Montserrat report) but we didn't really do much - eat, read on the beach, swim - some snorkeling. I did flip a sunfish sailboat and was able to right it, salvage the daggerboard, and get going again - so that was some excitement.
The BnD bbq was Sunday night and they had the local radio station on. After a bit of music, there was about an hour of what was clearly a political rally. Beyond the screeching presenter/speaker you'd hear the pause and then the "car horn sound" - hard to put into words but that "bwaaa bwaaa bwaaa bwaannnn" - similar to Jamaican dancehall and call-in shows I sometimes hear.
Anyway, I asked the owner lady what was going on and she proceeded to tell me that is the AUM (Anguilla United Movement), one of 3 political parties and they were campaigning for the next election. I asked when is the election (thinking next week or something). Her:"In February". Me: "February?, like 9 or 10 months from now"? yep. Oh boy. From a later conversation with her and others I gathered that local opinion of politics/politicians is similar to many JA opinions ("politricks", "corruption", "dem tek wi fi idiot").