We left Nevis Island after two nights and travelled to St. Kitts only about an hour away. We found a wonderful place to anchor off of a fantastic beach in South Friars Bay. One long beach with an elaborate restaurant/bar at one end and several beach bars scattered along the rest. We discovered that there was going to be a local band playing at one of the beach bars called Shipwreck so we ventured down there for happy hour. It proved to be very popular with the locals. One of the attractions on St. Kitts is green monkeys which are decendents of monkeys imported from Africa by the planters of sugar plantations (there are now more monkeys than people on the island). The sugar cane plantations have been abandoned in recent years. Shipweck had a lot of green monkeys in an area behind the bar. We moved on to the main town of St. Kitts called Basseterre and stayed at the marina. The town itself is very rustic but near the marina and where the cruise ships arrive they have built an enormous shopping mall with shops, and restaurants - reminiscent of Disneyland. Thousands of sarongs and t-shirts. To get to where we are now we first sailed back to Nevis and picked up a mooring buoy for an early morning getaway to Antigua as this would shave off an hour or so for the next days travel. The sail/motor to Antigua from Nevis took about nine hours and fortunately the waves had subsided a bit. Long sails are the norm in this area as the islands are quite far apart. We are loving Antiqua. We stayed on a dock in a marina in Jolly Harbour for two nights. We met a woman from Vancouver who had been sailing with her husband for 15 years. I am guessing they are in their late 70's and had just crossed the Atlantic where they had spent 5 years in the Mediterranean. They were feeling it was time to return back to Vancouver and were heading back to the east coast of the USA to have their boat put on a truck to transport it to Anacortes. From there they would sail back to Vancouver. It was important to them that they sail into Vancouver on their return just as they had sailed aw ay15 years ago. The big news on Brigadoon is our rescue at sea two days ago. We were motoring from Jolly harbour to Fulmouth harbour just inside a large, long reef when a young man popped out of the water calling for help. He was holding onto a spear gun and an air tank. He and a friend were diving and the strong current had drifted them about 3/4 of a mile from there dive boat. As we were trying to comprehend all of this Doug is inviting two local spear-gun-wielding young men onto our boat. Me, being the sceptical one, is wondering about the sanity of this until they pointed out their yellow dive boat far away in the distance just off of the reef. The boys explained that the driver of the boat would be driving around in circles looking for them. We delivered the very thankful young men back to their dive boat and continued our journey to Falmouth Harbour.

Falmouth Harbour is a large harbour with some of the most beautiful, large sailing vessels we have ever seen. Large sailboats have red lights on top of the mast which they light at night (to alert aircraft) so at night there is a display of very colourful red lights atop of the masts. You can walk for five minutes and arrive at the very picturesque English Harbour, famous for the English Harbour Dockyard which remains much as it was in 1789. This was Britain�'s main naval station in the Lesser Antilles. On the wall in the museum is a very large photograph of Prince Charles whom looks to be about 12 or 14 years old. While walking through the town of Falmouth Harbour we came across a man riding a donkey. This looked like a good photo op to me so I had my camera read. The happy and friendly man on the donkey said go ahead take as many pictures as you want and by the way do you have a dollar. A local woman walking by was giving him a hard time for asking for money. His reply was �"Just making pennies�". We made the man 100 pennies richer. They are quite friendly on Antigua. We keep getting called �'darling�' a lot. Not sure if they are calling me or Doug darling. On our way to Nonsuch Bay, as I write, a trip of about 11 n miles which will take us about 2 hours. We are at Green Island on a mooring buoy right next to the reef and the green colour of the water is amazing. Check out our position on Google maps from our sailblogs page.