Our relaxing stopover in Jamaica has come to an end. With barely any maintenance jobs to do on Mission Performance, having six days rest allowed me to see some of the great sights around Port Antonio.
The day after the Prize Giving party I spent helping show a party of Jamaican Scouts round one of the Clipper 70's, then later on we had a cricket match with some of the other boats (as I said in my previous blog I had never played cricket, but I managed not to show myself up!) and in the end out of the 4 teams we came 2nd! I also visited the beautiful beach at Frenchman's Cove with some of the Qingdao crew and after some heavy rainfall we decided to go to up to Reach Falls, where we were allowed to swim and jump off the waterfall and even go through it into the caves underneath accompanied by local guides. The next day I went with Kate to The Blue Lagoon where we borrowed some kayaks and paddled along the coast to an empty beach, after swimming in the sea for a while we paddled back to the Lagoon and swam there as well (the depth of it being 70 metres!). The rest of the time was spent relaxing and then on the last full day we had to prep the boat to be ready for the next leg.
So yesterday morning we said goodbye to Jamaica and after a really good race start we are still in the top group with all the leading boats around us, hopefully we can keep up with the pace and continue it all the way to New York in about a weeks time!
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