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Bellone
Sun 7 May 2023 15:22
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Since six o'clock this morning, we have had a decent
breeze of up to 16 knots. This has made a huge difference to speed. At one point
I noticed the speedo clocking 7.5 kn but that was whilst surfing down a wave.
However, we have recorded our best twenty four hour run of 116
miles.
Yesterday evening it was twilight at about 20.15 hrs and
there was a thunder storm going on to leeward of us (thank goodness!) but as the
light finally faded we had a magnificent moonrise in the east. Clear skies and
it was very bright. Likewise this morning, as the moon set, the sun came up in
the east.
St Lucia is a small island with a small population of
about 180 000 people. A town for us back in the UK. However, this independent
island struggles on but it does have a big gang-land problem. In one weekend
alone, nine people were murdered in the south of the island. I did the
calculation that if the same percentage of the population had been murdered in
the UK, the number of deaths would be 325 000.
That is a lot of people in either
community.
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