Tyrrel Bay, Carriacou

Yesterday we arrived in Tyrrel Bay to be greeted by a whole group of other boats that we met way back in Luperon. Although we all chose different paths/speeds through the Caribbean islands, we all met up here at the same time. Funny. We got together for pizza and beers at the Lazy Turtle and had a good time catching up.

Barb and Chuck ("Tusen Takk II") arranged an island tour today, so we piled into a van along with Nick and Deanna ("Caribbean Soul"), Paul and Ginette ("Sol Magique"), and Jim and Amanda ("Adventure Bound"). Our driver Thomas took us around the island for the next three hours. By now we are used to hearing all the medicinal uses for various plants on these taxi tours, and today was no exception. Sometimes we feel like we've heard it all before already. But today we learned a new one: apparently if you suffer from asthma, you should pour coconut milk into a tall glass and then toss a small lizard in there. Leave him in there to thrash around for 10 minutes (no less!) and then rescue him. Afterwards you can drink the milk when you start having an attack -- supposedly the milk is infused with adrenaline from the lizard's struggling (it's probably got a little lizard pee in there too, for good measure). I'm not sure if you could call it a "cure" but if I had asthma I would probably will my body to stop having attacks just to avoid having to drink the nasty lizard milk concoction. Eww.

Where we are:
Location=Tyrrel Bay, Carriacou
Lat=12 27.443
Lon=61 29.121