on the last episode we splashed our girl i think everybody's happy the boat feels happy
we completed a few items before heading out to anchor that's super tight but this will be fine
do you know how long it's been since i've seen this then we started cruising everything was going
great or so we thought what'd you think about the first-handed anchor you might know me as brittany
from lazy gecko sailing we had big plans we just didn't know that everything was about to change
we've run into a bit of a problem all the islands borders are closing we may not get granite access
into the next island and then if we check out here we won't be able to check back in if they
close their border the plan was to grab some fuel and hop on the dock for a night so we
can upload a video sounds great well that was until drones flying above us uncomfortable to
be honest with you unsuccessful welcome to lazy gecko sailing i'm brittany and this is jeremiah
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we just got word that grenada is on a seven-day 24-hour a day lockdown when
this all started we were in the states and china was going through its wave of the virus
taking over and then there were a couple cases on the west coast popping up so we
knew eventually it would probably take over state by state we kind of contemplated you know should
we go back to the boat our home which is on the har getting boat work done or should we
stay in the states and ride it out um and we opted to go back to grenada where we are here now
because staying in the states would mean we were hotel hopping and we have a higher chance
of catching it and a higher chance of giving it to somebody else because we're moving around so much
anyway we came back here and uh got our boat off the hard we were working with the boatyard as well
to get it done quicker we happened to pull into the marina to upload a video about a week and a
half ago now and that very day we had no idea but the country actually went into lockdown on
that day so we were kind of lucky because we need the wi-fi to upload videos although we'd rather be
out at anchor um you're not able to go in and out of the marina at this point so we're stuck on the
dock we can't move and up until this point it was a partial lockdown which means we can't move the
boat in and out but we could get off of the boat and walk around and go to the store for essentials
and whatnot between certain hours well today we just got told that for the next seven days it'll
be a 24 hour lockdown you aren't allowed to leave your yard or at all you can only go out in town if
you have a medical emergency or you need groceries but even the grocery store has a very small window
for you to get in there and get some groceries the last time i went to the grocery store was
about two weeks ago and it'll probably be about three more weeks before i go to the grocery store
we are trying to make do with what we have and um the lockdown isn't a big deal for us because we've
already self quarantined but we are we are still involved and it's a little bit of an odd feeling
we try to get reece out of the boat every day for a little while to play an activity we've been
filling our time with getting some more stuff done for lgs and all our other platforms working out a
little bit boat work uh school work is another one that we've been doing with reese the boys are here
now playing some soccer this was a forced change of pace for us as it was for so many around the
world we live a pretty fluid lifestyle though and are okay with unscheduled changes of plans that's
something 22 years in the u.s marine corps will get you used to we filled our days with a bit of
a schedule and spending time together as a family what do you tell me your thoughts on the lockdown
are you nice good yeah yeah you know they will focus on getting work done which is cool videos
and stuff like that and um you know the boat work and keep the boat ready to go you know who knows
they could always come out and say hey everybody needs to look at you know everybody needs to leave
and in that case we'd be ready to go so i'm fine with it get a little stir crazy in the boat but
it's all good get out this list we have an area to come out to and play around yeah it's a beautiful
area it's almost like we're the only ones living here what do you think of the lock down
i don't know i guess they put this um 24 hour lock down in place for seven days because
people weren't um adhering to the rules you know they were still getting together and stuff so
that's what i'm trying to do we got a lot of questions about how we're doing during this cobin
19 situation so we want to have some coffee sit down and talk i pulled him to the marina to upload
a video and uh it was like a friday or something like that and that night the island locked down
no votes in out or anything so we're not allowed to leave the marina but we're also happy that
we're in here um you know we have full use of everything we have power wi-fi for work
but if we were out of anchor we'd have trouble because the wi-fi is not good we have limited data
so it really worked out well for us but they did they shut the food service down pretty much
right away yeah everything and so we couldn't get food for how long was it
gee four weeks but thankfully two weeks before that i had provisioned the boat
and then it was about a month so we i'd say we almost went six weeks without going to
the grocery store and they opened it up for one day for the whole island and this is how it went
feeling a bit defeated so they opened up the grocery store today just for certain hours
i went and got in line about 15 minutes before they opened but i didn't realize that they were
letting elderly and workers go first so that line just kept filling up filling up i stood in
line for about six hours in the hot sun they were handing out water so that was awesome um it was
a little bit uncomfortable to be honest with you there were drones flying above us um people were
getting irritated because the lines were moving so slow i think they were letting in between 10
and 20 people at a time and they had 25 minutes to shop there's 14 000 people on this island
so from what i understand they came from all over the island to shop at what these two main grocery
stores so i ended up having to leave because i'm supposed to do a live feed have to get ready
i was hoping to fill up my what is now empty cart and by cruising backpack doesn't look like it's
gonna happen i think i'm gonna figure something else out they are talking about doing like food
delivery vegetable trucks and different things so i think i'm just gonna do that and get what
we can get um beggars can't be choosers right so just gotta go with what we can get and not
have the luxuries of what we'd want or desire i'm on my way back to the boat now feeling a little
defeated a little odd and definitely taken out of my comfort zone it's a learning experience though
i'm definitely living and feeling which is great you know doing this and seeing how different
things work in different parts but besides that the island's doing a really really good job
so my grocery shopping the other day was unsuccessful i stood in line for six hours
and it was probably going to be about two more hours before i got in the store i was sunburned
dehydrated and really really hungry i have gotten there at 7 45 in the morning and that just
wasn't cutting it but today i was sitting out on the dock having a glass of wine and security guy
came over and told me that a truck had rolled up and they were selling vegetables out of it
so i quickly put on my mask my gloves and uh want to go buy some vegetables
i'm gonna show it to you right now it's pretty cool
this is what i got beautiful vegetables of course i'm gonna have to wash them really really good
peppers lettuce tomatoes cucumbers carrots cantaloupe mango yeah i'm pretty excited heading
on over to the quarantine dock about 30 minutes um a shipment of food should be here that's my cart
jeremiah is bringing a second one because we didn't get cases of beer i won't be able to carry
two so he's gonna come help me and then that's the quarantine tent are you ready oh i'm ready
i think we're going on four weeks strong this is kind of cool though we just ran out of fresh
fruits and vegetables i was able to get some yesterday a van pulled up and i was able to
get some that was awesome i also put it in order before that for um a bunch of stuff and they're
supposed to show up today around five-ish they got provision from the government to go to the
grocery store without any of the public and they can get provisions for people if you order
you just pay for the service i don't know how much it is but at this point i really don't care
food's been a little bit hard to get there's food on the island it's just there's so many people and
it's hard regulating how you go get it so this is interesting you know we have our gloves our masks
two carts and i think they pull up already gave them our credit card information so i
think they bill us tonight and they'll hand us the groceries and we'll be on our way back to the boat
grenada was really starting to get things together the grocery delivery service was
a perfect way to get food into everyone's hands while the stores were still locked down
lots of good stuff no beer but that's okay i'm gonna put another order and they brought
get out of here yeah he was all excited didn't have on the list
yeah maybe he added in i think he asked for glenn livett and they got him glenn finished
things are starting to really look up in the food department i put in an order um
well everything's on delivery and today's like a huge day for delivery the island got approval
so right now the meat person that i ordered from is bringing me i don't even know like 400
in meat i don't really know what i got i hope it's not too much the veggie truck is coming midday
so that's really cool and then i put in an order with the company that brings kind of
like the dry goods and whatever they can grab so flowers pastas a bunch of different things
so today's a really big day for food i will be literally going back and forth
to the boat in the trucks all day long to fill the boat so yeah i'm really excited
we got our meat delivery
meat delivery yeah i mean that was pretty cool how'd it go really good so they pulled up in a
van with cooler bags and there's two other boats in this marina that are doing it and i got like
a big thing of meat there's ribs chicken bacon steaks they kind of give you a list to choose from
so i got two bags it was about 300 bucks but really good quality meats and they deliver it
that's cool you know it's great i'm happy with it and i also bring the bags just to kind of so the
food doesn't leak into the wagon but it's been amazing it folds up
grab this out pull up here and this slides right in the side yeah that thing's been pretty great
and it's like you're waiting in lines like we are now i just use this for like keep the sun off me
but it's amazing and i saw like other people were like oh man i wish i had one of those because when
you go to the grocery store you can only get as much as you can carry in bags this allows us to
carry much more and with the big hefty wheels it like goes through a bunch of terrain it's been
awesome i love it and we just store it up above we can hardly use it but when you need something
you have it it's great as you can see at first it was a little bit difficult and as time has gone
on the island has learned how to get through this situation the food situation and they're
really doing a great job yeah the delivery is amazing it's amazing they even have the good
scotch coming now you know well they always did it's just we didn't know that we could order it
yeah so we could have gotten it all through the other ones and beard i mean i got 20 no 40
24 heinekens right yeah yeah no 48 heinekens 48 heineken's 24 coronas or something like that so
i know it's all about beer over here but yeah so he was really happy yeah i mean as long as
we can get flour and peanut butter really we can survive yeah no it's been great and brittany's
been cooking bread or baking bread that's been awesome and it's really cool because reese is
learning how to make the bread and stuff like that so i mean those are really important things
to instill in kids i never learned that kind of stuff as a kid and i think it's really good for
him to experience that yeah i agree and now we are able to go to the grocery stores this week
three days a week but i kind of enjoy the delivery because it keeps contact to a minimum with the out
outside communities so i'm okay with continuing down the road of delivery with this all going on
you know the feeling we're all starting to get a little cooped up
that's okay though things could always be worse we were starting to get used to the lockdown life
just in time for the next big change coming up on the lazy geckos we got the airwing over here
charging lithium batteries with our engine now it goes from the alternator to the house bank
my favorite beaches i'm doing a lentil soup to a really big area down there you ready for the
drill into the boat we're partying on sunday we're looking at 10 to 12 days the max win for our whole
passage should be 21.3 knots came out to anchor so we can stage for our crossing this is day one
of our trip from grenada back to the united states we are freaking cooking what's the speed right now
we were having trouble sleeping that's what i'm talking about some checks around the boat
john we're here he taught you to attach a beer to it and he'd be there for dinner oh he did he
said six times back looks like a foot massage it looks hard during a storm you should put stuff in
your microwave that's a sprinkling now yeah now it's sprinkling oh there's another one coming
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