Pours hard throughout the night and off and on in the morning. Can’t go up the mast this morning, too wet and there isn’t 20 minutes where it doesn’t rain. Well we’re not in too much of a hurry. We dinghy in to the Coco Cafe to get a couple coffees, they’re quite good for…

We’re not in a hurry, but don’t want to stay in Anse Chastanet any longer than necessary. It was fairly rocky last night with large boats going by and pretty soon the party/charter boats will start roaring by again. No reason to stay here anyway. Just before we take off the rangers come by and…

It rains quite hard off and on in the morning so we’re a little tardy getting going. The plan is to stop at Anse Chastanet for a swim/snorkel then move on to Marigot Bay for the night. Some fishermen come by with a boatful of fish and ask if we want to buy any. “How…

We’re knocking off the St. Lucia adventures one at a time. Today we’re going to hike up the OTHER side of Sugar Beach to the Piton Waterfall – a small waterfall that is warmed by the nearby volcanic activity. This time we park the dinghy at the end of the pier right at Sugar Beach…

My sister Julie’s birthday today. I call her in the afternoon but she can’t talk long – her and granddaughter Avery (my grand niece, Blair’s second girl) have gone to McDonald’s to celebrate their birthdays and Avery has pooped her pants. Julie has to change her. We head in early to go through Customs and…

The weather has been a bit nasty overnight and even this morning. Frequent rain squalls and blustery. We wait for a gap in the rain to bring up the anchor and head out. We leave about 8 am. The wind in the St. Vincent channel between SVG and St. Lucia is supposed to be strong…

Big day today. We’ve arranged for a guide to take us up the 3,000 foot La Soufriere Volcano. Very exciting, they said they’d be at our boat at 6:45 am. They show up at 7:15 am so that’s not bad. Enough time to finish my oatmeal and coffee. The water taxi takes us – Christy,…

We’re off early, by 9 am to cross Bequia Channel and sail to Chateaubelair on the northwest coast of SVG. We intend to sail close to the island after crossing the channel to (a) see the scenery and (b) find out if the winds are better close to shore. A bit of marital bickering about…

Today we’re going to go for a walk somewhere new, or semi-new. Seems can’t go to the Moon Hole – it’s private property so we elect to go in the other direction, out towards Spring Estates at the north end of Bequia. Do a little pre-research and Holy Cow! There’s a golf course there! That’s…

Nice to be back in Bequia. We know our way around here and it’s pretty easy going. Nice and early I start the water transfer – pump water from the aft tank through a hose to the forward tank. It’s quite slow but works. Trouble is, I don’t trust the tank levels at all but…