We moved over to St Vincent yesterday - usually a nice broad reach - yesterday: all motoring 6H :-(
Anyway - winds should be improving in the coming days so all is good
Wallilabou was used during filming of Pirates of the Caribbean II & III . some of the remaining s of the Village & portions of the dock built for the films are still In place ...

"Nothing"
Hanging out at Marigot Bay waiting for Fritz to arrive Friday Night at 10PM ..
Weather seems to have improved a bit in that it's not raining all the time anymore - winds are still crappy....

I got an e-mail from Fritz today ...
I guess after a few weeks of massaging his butt in the Andes on horseback, he decided it was time for a climate change...
He'll be in St Lucia on Friday and will join us for the reminder of the trip (I assume ??)
If everything goes according to plan, we should meet up with him in Marigot Bay Friday night.

I'll keep you posted....

Rain Rain Rain
Not a pretty picture for the Caribbean on the satellite Image :-)

We are in French country after all ! - so every town /village should have a bakery - don't you think ?? Therefore this morning, Jill and myself "dingied" to shore at 7AM to look for it (me hoping for [un grand cafe]and maybe having a look at the weather forecast..)..
but guess what : - no bakery - no internet - nada ! :-(
- this is what tourism does to this poor indigenous - they loose "all" there traditions - so it turns out none of the beach restaurants (about 8-10) will open until noon ...
They did have two stores opening at 7:30, that would sell us a baguette , eggs and some onions for our breakfast on the boat.
We left the anchorage around 9AM heading towards St Lucia ... usually the 22nm run should take us 3-4 Hours, but today for whatever reason we had the wind on our nose ... on top of that it was only blowing 5-6 knts ..No way I'm going to try to tack this ....
So there we were, motoring at 4.5 knts towards St Lucia against the current (but no swell) .. About midway through the passage the trades remembered there origins and turned a bit west at 10 knts - just enough for us to hoist sails and sail the last 10 nm. Because there was barley any swell we made good progress at +- 6knts.

The weather forecast for the coming days is not looking too promising - rain rain and more rain - with winds around 5-7 knts ... = truly a crappy forecast for our upcoming crossing between St Lucia and ST Vincent for Saturday.

We will be staying at Rodney Bay Marina for a couple nights (doing laundry, washing the boat, filling up water and doing some other small chores that have piled up during the past month or so)

We left Fort De France short after 9:30 AM and moved over to Anse Noir where we spent most of the day - The snorkeling could have been good but Jill discovered a bunch of small hydroids- nematocyst that made her uncomfortable ( and she would know) so not much snorkeling got done...
We moved around 2PM to our night anchorage at Grand Anse D'Arlet where it promptly started to rain as we were about to drop the Anchor . and it hasn't stopped since ! ( (lots and lots of rain)
We were supposed to have one last French dinner ashore for this season but I guess we are "cooking" tonight ...
The anchorage has lots of boats but I would assume the restaurants won't get much (if any) business out of this crowd tonight.
Jill is complaining about some of our hatches leaking on her scrabble game ( need to replace some of the seals - really no surprise after 10 years) . She is playing against herself - not sure who's currently winning :-).

Hopefully the rain will move past us over night as I have not much interest in making the crossing into St Lucia under these conditions.