Today we are going to take the ferry into Fort-de-France, the largest city in some geography, I am too lazy to look up where. The ferry system and schedule are almost impossible to decipher and it appears you need the MT app to get a ticket and board. Hopefully the app will show the schedule…

We decide to head up the coast a bit to the largest city in the Caribbean (?) West Indies (?) someplace anyway. It’s vey calm weather and we motor all the way. We stop in beautiful Anse Noir (Black Beach) for a couple hours. It’s great, do a ton of snorkeling and Perry wishes we…

In the morning we motor into Le Marin, it’s a huge set of bays about a mile from St. Anne. Tricky moving around here though since there are shoals and reefs everywhere and about 2,500 boats anchored and moored between the two bays. Yeah, there’s a few. We find a couple likely spots close to…

We’re quite eager to get out of St. Lucia. Not very impressed with this place, though we really haven’t given it much time. It’s pretty expensive to explore here, you need a guide for everything and they’re US$50 per person per pop. That’s all the tourists seem to do, paid tours, so that’s all there…

Ben’s birthday today. We know he’s in Kingston for St. Patrick’s Day and his birthday so we don’t bother him with annoying parent calls. The hateful music went long into the night. I got up after midnight to go on the foredeck and listen to the vile stuff. Beautiful night, destroyed for all by that…

Beautiful morning in Marigot Bay. We are greeted with “Santa Claus” who comes by daily on his SUP with local fresh produce and bread. Amazing how he can balance himself on that SUP, even when it gets windy in the bay. We buy a pineapple for $EC35 (that’s $17 Cdn!) so he throws in some…

We walk up to where the hotels are to book a hike up Gros Piton. No problem she says, it’s $170 each. That sounds reasonable, EC$170 each. She says, no, US$170, CAD$500. No thanks. So instead we elect to do a free hike up the hill behind The Mango Tree resort. Takes us a few…

We set out just after midnight under a glorious moon and fair winds. We’re making 7 kts across Bequia channel but know it won’t last as we get in the lee of St. Vincent. Sure enough we’re motoring with sails up very soon. We’ll stay like this until the tip of St. Vincent. We see…

Christy has the brainwave to leave Bequia for St. Lucia tonight at midnight. Full moon (almost) and the tide is favourable for when we will cross the channels. It’s a good plan. A bunch of stuff to do and get ready. We have a burnt out port nav light so need to get that working.…