Year: 2014
Marigot Bay
Arrived in Marigot Bay and had a leisurely lunch followed by sundowners with ARC friends who were also here. Then we all had a long dinner at Doolittles. No need to eat today! It feels good to be somewhere other than Rodney Bay. No boat boy hassle here which makes for a relaxing anchorage. Food’s not great at Doolittles. Worst of all the place is infested with no-see-ums that chew your ankles to bits. And Happy Hour is a bit of a con with the apparent standard EC$ type prices for drinks actually turning out to be in USD! So
Rodney Bay Supermarket – Shop Alone!
To avoid the crush – just turn up! Twice we went to the supermarket in the mall and almost had it to ourselves.
Finally at anchor
We moved out of the marina yesterday to anchor in Rodney Bay. Despite the unseasonal weather in the photo (upside down and I cant fix it!) we did manage to anchor the dinghy and snorkel around the rocks on Pigeon Island. It feels good to be free of a marina for the first time in 3 months (not including the Atlantic)! Because of our varying problems we have had to be attached to land and our last anchorage was Portimao in the Algarve. We ate well last night, some steaks with plantain and baked potato. Our first attempt at cooking
Zip Lining St Lucia
A great day out zip lining through the rain forest. Of course it rained on our open top jeep. There are 12 zip lines at varying heights through the forest canopy and the tour ends with a trip to a local waterfall.
Happy New Year
Sorry for the lack of posts. We have needed a lot of downtime to recover from the crossing. For the first 3 nights we would wake up every 3 hours ready for our watch! We have been staying in Rodney Bay marina waiting for our tender to be repaired which our retractable bow thruster sliced a hole in. Without a tender we are unable to go to anchor or leave the island. Just before Christmas we sailed with Duplicat for the first time on a catamaran then anchored in Rodney Bay and swam. Christmas Eve saw a devastating storm which