We decided after the marina to go back south. We originally were thinking about going to Mustique – north, the direction we’re generally heading – but after some thought, reading, and talking to people at the marina we decided not to. Mustique is a very exclusive private island where cattle like us are highly restricted. You can hike through the salt-marsh area, stay and moor on one beach, and visit the shops in town, but you can’t go anywhere else without permission. Fine, I get it, people like their privacy (I certainly do) and don’t want others gawking.

And there was a Jazz / Blues festival at a bar on the beach coming up, which would have been fun.

But the book which we use as our guide also mentioned that the anchorage was “swelly” at least twice. Ocean swells will keep you up all night and make you seasick so we try and avoid them.

But we like the Grenadines so far and were looking to spend a little more time somewhere. Many people we met mentioned Chatham Bay on Union Island, so we decided to go back south and visit for a couple of days.

Anyways, the point of this post: this bay is very steep to the bay all the way around, as shown in the first pic. There is no good road in, no electricity, and no running water. Also, no homes built anywhere – beach bars and one 3-room “resort” on the beach, but no permanent homes in sight (you can see some of the beach bars in the background of the second pic). I don’t think I’ve seen any other bay like this.

But, the one thing it does have is cell-phone reception (LTE) – you can see the tower on top of one of the bluffs in the second pic. This has also been very regular down in the Caribbean – regular cell phone reception and everyone has a smartphone – everywhere.

So why Tom Brady? Well, I was sitting here monitoring the Bucs game last night and thinking that when Tom started playing, cell phone service and smartphones were not regular, they were just starting to come into widespread use. It is simply amazing to me, and has to be one of the fastest rollouts and transitions of technology in the history of man, how quickly pretty much the entire world has hopped on cell services.

If I had had a streaming service and if I had the money to pay for the bandwidth, I could have sat on my boat in a fairly secluded bay and live-streamed the bucs game on my large-screen TV. I don’t have a streaming service, didn’t pay for the bandwidth, and don’t have a large screen TV so I read a “live-blog” only to watch the greatest QB of all time lose in the final seconds.

But the technology is simply amazing.