Guadaloupe & Iles des Saints
Over the past week or so we have had a brief tour of the large mountainous island of Guadaloupe, followed by the cluster of islands to the south known as Les Saintes. We’ve had a mix of seeing wonderful places…
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Barbuda
Recently we enjoyed a nice sail on a close reach heading to Barbuda. With the winds mostly between 14-16 knots apparent apart from a couple squalls we had nearly perfection conditions to sail north to Barbuda for a few days.
More Antigua: St John’s Harbour
Since our two sets of visitors we’ve leisurely toured a bit more of Antigua, notably the west coast. A few nights in Jolly Harbour to take care of chores and then we were off to Deep Bay for a couple…
Antigua
For the past week and a half we have been exploring the beautiful island of Antigua and hosted two sets of visitors which has kept us on the move to find new beaches, snorkel spots and historical sites as well…
2016
We rang in the New Year in Grande Case making our best effort to be fast asleep, but became suddenly aware that 2016 had arrived by the sound and light of fireworks being launched from the beach 200 yards in…
Grande Case: Bon Appetit
Grande Case is the dining capital in St Martin with about 30 or more restaurants all in a mile with simple to high end options and everything in between. Hard to go wrong and of course many of them have…
Marigot
We finally made the trek over to St Martin this past week and with the ‘Christmas Winds’ having arrived it is a good thing we didn’t delay any longer. We anchored in Marigot harbour upon our arrival and have been…
Sailors and Their Opinions
The other day Chrissy and I were invited aboard a Catamaran that on paper has been my dream boat for a number of years, but we had never had a chance to be aboard. After seeing numerous catamarans by…
BVIs: Check. Next.
After a few nights in Cane Garden Bay, our favourite spot on Tortola, we headed to Jost Van Dyke to catch the ‘bubbly pool’ that we missed last year. A very cool spot indeed and the conditions were perfect to…
Revisiting some of our Favourites in the BVI
We’ve been working on visiting some of our favourite spots in the British Virgin Islands over the past week or so and next week are targeting a few places where we didn’t really get to explore adequately last year. So…