We anchored in Antigua's main harbor Falmouth which is very large and protected. Our plan was to start seeing the island at this harbor, move to English Harbour which is a spectacular harbor next to Falmouth and then tour the island by boat. On Friday we rented a car and went to St. John to run errands - get our stove's gas bottles filled, pick up our mail from Fed Ex (and later the airport as it had been sent to customs), get a large provision for the boat as Antigua had a good supermarket (Epicurean at Woods Center). On Saturday we met our friends Pattie and Tim from Tevie who had arrived on Friday and so we were in great company again.

We expected to stay in Falmouth for 2-3 nights. However, we got "stuck" again due to the weather and ended up staying in Falmouth Harbour the entire time. A cold front that was coming from the coast of the US was clashing with the prevailing East winds and was going to cause some of the highest winds and waves recorded in these islands for this time of the year. This is sort of the weather pattern we have found in the Caribbean so far, a rather surprising pattern of several days of bad weather followed by a few good ones, then no wind and then some other front with squalls starting again. Therefore, we decided to at least tour the island by car, which was nice but never the same as touring it by boat.