We’re up early – another beautiful day – and make the long dinghy ride into town as everyone wants to hit the Saturday morning market.

I walk around as the girls shop, try to find a pharmacy to get some aspirin. My neck and shoulder are killing me, especially at night and I need a couple pain killers to get to sleep. In the morning it’s better. Couldn’t find a pharmacy in either Anse d’Arlet and having trouble here. Eventually I find one on a back street, very modern but even there it was hard to locate the aspirin – they keep it behind the counter. What I get is actually “Aspirine UPSA” and turns out it’s effervescent – you put it in a class of water and it dissolves. 1000mg per shot, I end up just breaking one in half most of the time unless the pain is really bad. The stuff works great.

I discuss with the gang and we decide I will buy a fresh tuna for E$30 from the fish market and we will try our new BBQ. We bought charcoal in Fort-de-France. Probably shoulda negotiated but he fillets it, mostly, too so that’s a bonus.

Back on board, I finish cleaning the tuna and we decide what to do. After much procrastination it seems, we decide to swim to shore and check out the snorkeling at the south end of the beach. Apparently there is a wreck there.

The water is crystal here and as I swim to shore I see two turtles and a ray. We walk the length of the beach and jump in again at the south end where we can see there are divers and a few snorkelers. Sure enough, the wreck of the Amelie is here and pretty interesting snorkeling. Tho we don’t know much about it (this is Martinique) it seems to be pretty old and scattered over a large area. Turns out it sunk in February 1902, which is odd because the volcano eruption was in May. Some divers are charting what appears to be an old plate, probably Corningware from the back of a boat. Perhaps most interesting is the old boat ribcage which is very close to shore. Shoulda brought the GoPro.

Eventually we exit, swim back to Milu. It’s getting too late to go ashore for a BBQ and there isn’t any open picnic tables so we elect to try that tomorrow. We’ll start early to make sure we snare a table. I fly the drone a bit, eventually we hit the hay.