Mea culpa. I've been so busy with other things, and messing around with the tablet, that the blog has been sadly neglected. At least I got my article/column for Caribbean Compass in before the deadline again!

We've been in Rodney Bay for over two weeks. The trade winds have been uncharacteristically strong for this time in the season. I mean, we weren't in a huge rush to get down to Grenada, but we hadn't planned on spending Canada Day, or the 4th of July, in St. Lucia.

A synopsis of the last...how long? The volcano was the last post? Oh boy, I have been bad...
Left Fort de France and spent some time at Grand Anse d'Arlet. But I did do a blog about that with the catamaran race. Then we decided to swing around and go to St. Anne.

In St. Anne we met up with friends on 'Izzy R' and 'Banyan', as well as getting to know some other people better. I enjoyed some great trail runs, and dragged the others out on a hike or two as well (at their request). We rented a car with some new cruisers to the area to introduce them to the joy of the Decathlon Store and the HyperU, as well as showing them a bit more of the Atlantic coast ...okay, showing them the Atlantic coast since they had seen none of it.

After a suitable time, and a wait for the right weather, we jumped south to Rodney Bay, ostensibly for maybe a week. Since then, we have been on the dock, where we scraped and cleaned and painted the bottom of the hull of the dinghy. Ken finally took the bull by the horns and we dropped the mainsail and the boom to run some lines appropriately, and to give the lazy jacks a more permanent home. Other tinkering as well. Of course, no trip to Rodney Bay is complete without a trip to the dentist and a trip to the Mega J.

We also found out about a local brew pub that happens to be Canadian owned but well managed by their St. Lucian staff. We encouraged them to throw a Canada Day party, which we helped decorate for by lending them our 10 back up replacement Canada Flags. We believe a good time was had by all (we did!).

Now there seems to be a possibility to get farther south to St. Vincent mid week. Our fingers are crossed.