Day sail to Trois Islet

Date 2000 – 8 March 2011 This morning we broke away from St Anne and headed out west towards
Diamond Rock, see photographs in the 9 February log entry (was it really a
month ago?), before turning north to follow the coast towards Fort de France.
It was great to be sailing again and there were some interesting sights. This French topsail schooner, La Belle Espoire, was anchored under
Diamond Rock and made a splendid scene: This magnificent fully rigged ship, the Stadt Amsterdam, was anchored
in Grande Anse d’Arlet, a sight that would have been quite the norm in
the late 19th century when all of the bays down the coast were host
to trading ships. We made a lunch stop at Anse Noir, a very beautiful bay, named after
the black (grey) sand on the beach: It is somewhat narrower than the photograph suggests with the wind
being funnelled between the hills on one side and the cliffs on the other.
Good for lunch. For the foodies, lunch as somewhat special with crab and avocado
tortilla wraps, the crab out of the deep freeze from We looked at Anse Mitan as an overnight anchorage but it was rather
rolly so we carried on back to Trois Islet, 2 miles around the headland and
much more protected where we anchored off the golf course; see logs for 10 and
11 February. Dinner - Chicken Korma curry, chicken also from the freezer and |