21 June 2011 | Salt Lake City, UT
22 April 2011 | Bocas Town, Bocas del Toro, Panama, Central America, Earth, Our Solar System, Our Galaxy, The Universe
15 April 2011 | Colon, Panama
05 March 2011 | Simpson Bay Lagoon, St. Maarten
28 February 2011 | St. Johns, Antigua, W.I.
24 February 2011 | Falmouth Harbor, Antigua, West Indies
08 February 2011 | Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, West Indies
01 February 2011 | La Marin, Martinique, France, West Indies
27 January 2011 | Rodney Bay Marina, St. Lucia,West Indies
26 January 2011 | Rodney Bay Marina, St. Lucia, West Indies
21 January 2011 | Admiralty Bay, Bequia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, West Indies
18 January 2011 | Chatham Bay, Union Island, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, West Indies
05 January 2011 | Clifton Harbor, Union Island, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, West Indies
02 January 2011 | Union Island, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, West Indies
22 December 2010 | Port Elizabeth, Bequia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, West Indies
16 December 2010 | Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, West Indies
20 November 2010 | Las Palmas, Spain
14 November 2010 | Las Palmas, Spain
11 November 2010 | Las Palmas, Spain
29 October 2010 | Marina Bay, Gibraltar
Visiting France
01 February 2011 | La Marin, Martinique, France, West Indies
Will
You may think from the title of this blog that in the last few days we've traversed almost 3,000 n.m. and returned to the Mediterranean in the wrong season. The fact is, is that while we are indeed in France, France was one of the more fortunate European countries and managed to hold on to some of their Caribbean territories.
We've been in Martinique now for 3 days. The first night we spent out at anchor after a semi-rough passage up the "milk run of the Caribbean." The passage from Pigeon Island (St. Lucia) to Martinique is supposedly a wonderful passage with winds either behind or on the beam. We hit the bad day (go figure) and it was upwind most of the way.
The next day (yesterday) we came in to the marina to prepare for a mass repair project. It turned out that instead of repairing everything, we scrapped most of the repair list for a later time. Today we planned to move out to anchor again, but got waylaid when my dad decided to go to Le Lamentin to try and get our computer keyboard fixed. That turned out to be not a total wast of time (they said 'no'), but close to it.
This will be our third night in Martinique and hopefully our last in the marina. We don't have a real clear idea of where we are going next, but we are eventually going to visit the east coast (it looks very protected).