Les Saintes - Anchorage behind Pain De Sucre - April
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Mike and Liz Downing
Tue 21 Apr 2009 03:17
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It's no more than a mile round to the anchorage behind the
headland called Pain De Sucre - a 200-foot hill going straight up from the sea.
The anchorage is well protected and there were only 3 or 4 other boats there
when we arrived around midday. Later in the afternoon the wind changed more
to the north east resulting in us being on a lee shore within the bay. So
we experimented with our kedge anchor (small and light) laying it via the
dinghy to hold us out in the bay. It worked well, too well in fact
as it was a hard job to break it out the next day when trying to retrieve
it. The water in the bay was the clearest we had encountered for a while
and we could easily see the bottom in 30ft of water. The snorkeling was good -
there's a small reef close in shore - so we stayed 3 nights. The last
night was interesting. We woke to find the wind was going round to the
west as a squall went through and the boat was very soon being blown close
to the shore. So while still anchored we motored out around the anchor and
waited for the squall to pass before retrieving the anchor and heading south
once again.
 The anchorage at Pain du Sucre is less rolly than
the town (Bourg des Saintes)
 Pain De Sucre
 A couple of sunsets
 Looking at clouds - is that a man running on the
right, or a crocodile on 2 legs?!
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