We had a fabulous fast sail down to St Lucia with strong winds and moderate Atlantic swell on our port quarter.
Our early arrival meant we were able to get a mooring ball in a prime spot right in the inner lagoon in Marigot Bay.
We were joined later by Brisa who rafted up with us after sailing down from Rodney Bay to join us.
A Canadian couple from the next mooring joined us all for tea and with Brisa regaled their woeful tales of the bureaucratic farce of checking in and the exorbitant $100 extra overtime fee for checking in on a Sunday.
I had filled all our checking in details on line the day before we arrived so we were not expecting the same issues.
But alas the bureaucracy in St Lucia makes it absolutely the worst Caribbean Island to check into. We were sent away from customs at 12 as they were shut for lunch for 1 ½ hours. On our return they had no acess to the official on line system so made us fill in all our details again on paper forms and they charged us the extra $100 overtime fee!
Last night as last year we were raided by the bats who nibbled our bananas hanging in our fruit net. I saw one last year but this morning we just saw the aftermath! However, we are both very fond of bats and hope they visit again but we have hidden the bananas!