Return to Mopion Island

After a nearly 10 year interval we return to Mopion Island. A 50 foot square patch of sand, surrounded by coral reef nearly too shallow to get the dinghy over and sporting nearly all the comforts of civilization; namely it has one 5 foot circular thatch roofed, single pole dwelling.... and nothing else. Bordered on all sides by the Caribbean sea, which breaks up on the island, moving it each year to the left or right. This time rather than the aforementioned "dwelling" was well to the east of the island rather than in the middle. The kids had a blast playing in the sand, getting crashed by the waves and generally running around the island as many times as possible.

This week we left Grenada/Carricou and moved up into the southern Grenadines, visiting Petite St. Vincent, Petite Martinique and Union Island. The fishing has been thinner though I was able to get one more lobster.

We did have a near scare. The water maker failed due to excess salinity above the preset threshold. Running through all the possibilities, bad salinity probe, membrane in need of cleaning, bad membrane or loose connections, I only had the ability to look into the last item, having no membrane cleaning supplies or salinity testing equipment. Very fortunately another cruiser came to our rescue, notably having both cleaning supplies and a hand held salinity probe. We ran the water maker, bypassing the automated salinity alarm and tested the output with the hand held probe .... the water quality was excellent, alas only a faulty automated salinity probe. We have water, which I find better than the alternative .. rum rations only.

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