Winter Escape Part 2

My previous post about this trip ended as we boarded our ferry to Bequia from St. Vincent on December 16. We got to Bequia at sunset, an hour or so later. While Mike and Noel were collecting our bags, I shot a picture from Noel's taxi on the ferry dock. It was less than a week short of the Winter Solstice. When we were ready to leave Bequia in March, we were very close to the Equinox, and I took another photo from the same spot. Even though the length of the days are closer to equal at this latitude, you can still see that sunset is noticeably farther north at the Equinox.

We were in the Caribbean for a full three months plus a few days, the longest
we've traveled. And instead of island hopping through the Grenadines, between St. Vincent and Grenada, we rented an apartment on Bequia for three months. It's a nice roomy and spotless place, one of two apartments upstairs from Lawson Sargeant's Maritime Museum. Lawson and his wife Mercy built the museum and apartments on the property where Mercy grew up, a block off the harbor-side road at the edge of the villages of Hamilton and Ocar. (Or O'car. Or Ocar Reform. I'm still not sure.) It's not a resort area, but there are a sprinkling of visitor accommodations in the neighborhood. It's about a ten minute walk from downtown Port Elizabeth, but we had a market and bakery practically next door, and close by restaurants too. The market is the pink building, and our apartment is in the white building with the green roof in the background. The harbor is just across the street, viewed from our balcony.