Christy and Perry Saving the World

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.…

Christy here again… Well, another beautiful day in paradise! It has only rained once or twice since we’ve been here… everyday is pretty much 29 degrees, sunny with winds between 10-20 mph. I’ll take it! I start my sourdough process this morning. The dough has been in the fridge all night and ready to be…

Christy here… giving Perry a break from posting… We’re up early as we have a pretty long sail to Bequia today. We leave by 8 am and the sail should take us about five hours or so. We notice beside us as we depart the Cays that the boat, Africots, the folks we met in…

We leave Mayreau for the Cays at a respectable time. Want to give the people that are there enough time to clear out, but not enough time that a bunch more move in. Get there about mid-day. Lots of room to anchor, we settle just off the main beach, very swimmable. It’s not very crowded…