Bequia and St Lucia

On the 26th of Dec we decided to go for a hike at Fort Rodney, St. Lucia. Weather was great with a light breeze and from the top of the Fort you could see Martinique.








After leaving Bequia we stopped at Soufriere on St Lucia. We cleared in and then spent two days on a mooring at Malgretout. Swimming, hanging out, and I got a much needed haircut. Lesley took the dinghy out for a test ride after I repaired the prop.









While we were still anchored in Bequia we decided to take the dinghy out and explore the ruins called "Moonhole". Very interesting site but not really sure about the background and history











Another shot of part of "Moonhole"

Anchored Admiralty Bay, Bequia

We've been back on the boat for over a month now and I've been remiss in taking pictures, updating this blog, and doing just about anything else - except working on the boat. We have everything put back together that we took apart last year. Autopilot is working well with the new substitute Raymarine RAM (in a B&G autopilot system), generator is generating and no more oil leaks, solar panel is working great, and the water maker is providing all the fresh water we can use.

We've been casually moving North this year as we are not meeting guests or on any kind of schedule.

We were able to provision pretty thoroughly in Grenada but like always there is something that can not be found - this year it is beef bouillon and canned potatoes but we are making do and hoping that we will find these items in St Lucia.

We continue to use Windguru.com as our primary wind/wave source and again this year find that it is a great source for planning trips between Islands.

We saw our first "Green Flash" of the season two nights ago and I was of course very excited about that. Lesley must think I'm nuts!

I've been enjoying swimming more this season than last for some reason and we have not had as much of a problem (yet) with charter boats or those from a certain European Country trying to encroach on our anchor site! Will see if this holds true as we continue on our trip North.

Finally, we had such a great experience shipping material to Grenada via Tropical Shipping this year, we plan to ship some of our cold weather gear and unused equipment back to Florida when we return there in April.