Young Island to Mustique

Young Island is a 35 acre privately owned island that truly fulfills the expectations of the "Caribbean Dream"
The island is virtually a tropical garden with all it's lush green foliage, fruits and flowering plants that grow with splendid abundance everywhere. The luxurious thatched cottages with their garden hammocks swinging gently among the tall palms, delicious cocktails served in fresh coconuts, and powdery soft, white sandy beaches, make this island as close to Paradise as you will find in the Caribbean.
To learn more about this little paradise go to www.youngisland.com
We had another early start this morning. The sail from Young Island to Mustique was quite rough once again, with large swells, and winds gusting up to 35 knots. Edi and Justin manned the stations for Captain Bob, while I slept as always pathetic in these conditions.
We arrived in Mustique just around lunchtime. Ed and Justin swam off the boat while Bob went ashore to customs to check us in. Bob returned before too long and we all went ashore to look around. I bought some local vegetables from one of the pretty little market stores on the sea front, the vendor cleverly used a brightly paiinted fishing boat as his store. Many of the fruit and vegetables were very unusual fruits that I was unfamiliar with the friendly store owner let us try some, they delicious, and yet, like nothing I have ever tasted before.
I couldn't resist the aroma of freshly baked bread coming from one of the local stores, I bought a large loaf of sour dough bread hot out of the oven, yum!
Mustique is a small island only 1400 acre's, and privately owned by the shareholders of The Mustique Company representing 17 countries. This island is absolutely magnificent, immaculatelt maintained, and has a strictly controlled development plan. The island currently has 100 private residences, and 72 villas, that re avaliable for weekly rental.
This is one of my favorite Caribbean islands for many reasons. A couple of years ago I fulfilled one of my dreams here, horseback riding along a beach, and Mustique really has some magnificient beaches. The island and its properties are maintained to the highst possible standards, its no coincidence that royalty, film stars and billionairs own homes here. You won't find any ramshackle half finished buildings with corrugated iron roofs, broken down cars with trees growing out of them, or infact any signs of povety. The entire island is pristine, groomed to perfection and quite magnificient.
The majority of the local workers on Mustique live in Lovell village, a small community created in 1964 by Colin Tennant. He built homes (for the dozen or so families that remained on the island following its sale by the Hazel family), where there had once been only fishing shacks.
Besides the homes in Lovell villlage there are a couple of bars, a restaurant, boutique, church, library, school and police station. To learn more about Mustique go to : www.mustique-island.com
We had hoped to go to Basil's Bar for cocktails before returning to the boat. Basil's is idyllically situated, perched on stilts over the Caribbean sea, and has a far reaching reputation as one of the worlds best bars. Basil's is also home of the Mustique Blues festival held here January 27 - February 10th each year.
Unfrtunately for us they were in the midst of extending and refurbising so the bar was sadly closed. Dissapointed we all returned to Daisy.
I made some delicious sandwiches with the fresh bread for lunch which we enjoyed with a couple of bottles of the local beer 'Carib.' After lunch we set sail for the Tobago Cays.