Santa Meets the tooth Fairy on Wind Belle

Santa meets the Tooth Fairy.

The was great excitement in the lead up to Christmas on Wind Belle as well as a huge concern over whether Santa would find us, and how would he deliver the stockings. Also Tallulah had her first wobbly tooth, and boy was it wobbled. Come Christmas eve and guess who's tooth came out, which created a few hysterics in case either the tooth fairy or Santa didn’t come. But guess what, they both came and they met in Talluluh’s cabin in the middle of the night!!!

Christmas was spent in Bequia which is part of St Vincent and the Grenadines. We were anchored about 200 ft off Princess Margret beach, (apparently she used to swim here as Mystique is nearby.) Bequia is a lovely place (Sophie and my favourite in the Caribbean) completely unspoilt by development, and feels like the true Caribbean. Boat boys come out to the anchored boats and offer you bread, fresh fish, ice, laundry services (we tried it and our laundry did come back to our surprise !!) and Ganja.

On Christmas eve we went to church for an impromptu carol concert, with all the other boaties. A local guy banged away at the key board on a very out of tune Piano, while various people sung Carols in flip flops,shorts, sun dresses and looked out of the church door to the blue sea in the bay. Funnily enough there was no vicar or real locals.

For Christmas eve dinner we got a lobster off one of the local boat boy’s. it was a whopper at 5 lbs, and cost us £20. Only problem was it was hard to find a pot big enough to boil it, and it wouldn’t fit on the BBQ. In the end we managed to cook it and it was delicious.

Christmas morning arrived and we had to pinch ourselves as we looked out of the window onto the golden sands and the mouthwash blue water. The girls meanwhile got stuck into the stocking, as Santa had luckily found us, and were busy examining the notes left by the tooth Fairy and Santa.

So what do you get for girls on a boat. Well, Imy got a DS gameboy, Tallulah got roller blades,and proceeded to roller blade all over the boat, and Sienna got a bicycle, which she also rode around the cabin and cockpit. (As you guessed neither the bike or the roller blades could be used at the beach as there is no path just sand.)

For Christmas Lunch we had the team from Sun Set Sam over and Graine and Sophie slaved in the Galley to produce a full turkey lunch with all the trimmings, including Christmas pudding and crackers. There is nothing quite like the old traditions of eating too much and drinking too much, followed up by a swim to the beach, instead of the sleep in front of the the Queens speech and Wizzard of Oz rerun on TV.

Thanks to all those who gave the girls presents, their thank yous are in the post.