Bequia Easter Regatta 2008 - Caribbean Compass

APRIL 2008 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 38
APRIL 2008
� ARIES (21 Mar - 20 Apr)
Your humor and business ships are still in irons. Speed
made good to windward seems agonizingly slow. However,
romance is a good distraction and should keep you entertained
until the third week.
� TAURUS (21 Apr - 21 May)
After the second week you may have rough weather in
your love life. Concentrate on your creative pursuits to
make the best of your time.
� GEMINI (22 May - 21 Jun)
You’ll feel full of energy and good humor. Get some boat
projects underway to make the most of these aspects.
CANCER � (22 Jun - 23 Jul)
Even with light airs in your sense of humor and bumpy
seas in your love life, your business prospects should
continue to have strong, steady winds.
� LEO (24 Jul - 23 Aug)
For every tack you make, it will seem the winds will shift
to back your sails. It would be best just to spend time with
friends and not worry about boat projects now.
� VIRGO (24 Aug - 23 Sep)
Now that skies have cleared in your love life, it’s a good
time to just relax and spend time on board making cruising
plans.
� LIBRA (24 Sep - 23 Oct)
Your love life will meet rough seas but your sense of
humor will sail you through. You’ll have lots of energy, so
attack those boat projects you’ve been putting off.
� SCORPIO (24 Oct - 22 Nov)
While business or finance should show some promise,
your love life will be on a slog to windward after the 15th.
Concentrate on whatever small positives your business
prospects offer.
� SAGITTARIUS (23 Nov - 21 Dec)
Your love life will keep you busy for the first two weeks
and your creativity will be anchored alongside, so get as
much done as possible before mid-month.
� CAPRICORN (22 Dec - 20 Jan)
You’re still in the doldrums with business, creativity, love
and your sense of humor. After mid-month, the love part
of all this should see a favorable breeze.
� AQUARIUS (21 Jan - 19 Feb)
Your drive and sense of humor are in good aspect, so hop
to it and clear up any boat projects left undone.
� PISCES (20 Feb - 20 Mar)
There will be new business opportunities coming, so
don’t be wishy-washy — say “aye-aye!”
Crossword Solution
ACROSS
2) VIA
3) VALVES
7) VEGA
8) VESSEL
9) VANE
12) VAIL
13) VARIABLES
15) VERIFY
19) VANGUARD
20) VELOCITY
23) VAN
24) VALUATION
DOWN
1) VIE
2) VEER
4) VANES
5) VARIATION
6) VEERING
9) VALUES
10) VAT
11) VERY
12) VANG
13) VICTOR
14) VENDUE
16) VALKYRIE
17) VACUUMS
18) VOYAGES
19) VENTRAL
20) VANGEE
21) VALUE
22) VEIN
23) VANN
Keep Me Clean
I am the deep blue sea.
I hold many wonders
and colourful fishes —
the ones you see.
If you keep me clean
I will glow and shine.
You can dive for treasure.
One sea; true beauty like
no other kind.
Remember, marine life could
be at stake
if you continue to pollute
seas, rivers and lakes.
Water pollution has become common
in our region.
It will not only affect fishes,
but the lives of everyone.
— Keithon Grant
Bill Robinson’s Favorite Photograph:
The Pitons, St. Lucia
The focus is on dream: in the foreground, fronds;
then the trackless earth like gold
melts to a curve of palm and sand that borders
a wide bay cool, azure, unpeopled;
and there at anchor the yacht — very small
in the distance but clear, in silhouette
or with her sails lazy, unfurled on deck, spent.
A photograph that’s hard to get,
this one’s of Eleuthera, blue-hulled
and steel, languid now, a mere glimmer
of wakes past and to come; of her graceful famous lines
and ruggedness, all gossamer.
As the Pole fields draw the compass, she draws you
and speaks of some totality
until the photo is no longer seeming
but true, and of no century.
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Island Island
Poets Poets
Captain Cook climbed hills like this to chart
the coast unknown before Endeavor.
Today, the view excites in the windward eye
the same sense of what it is to discover
not the world of islands, but an island world:
and what perspective comes with distance
on your voyaging to this far place and near
of the soul, to this pièce de résistance.
I have stood in Greenland and felt the same way
seeing the big ketch, my wing and bond,
far below, nearly icebound, elusive still;
have felt the time in my bones respond
to her rare image of friendship and adventure
in the soft rough palm of Nature’s hand,
of a personal enlargening — a view
surely a landsman can understand.
— Richard Dey
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