A day in St Barts - with pictures

Island Kea II
Steve and Katrin Everett
Tue 19 Feb 2008 17:14
Last night we did not get a lot of sleep.  We had anchorwatch turned on on our electronics and we got woken up at midnight and again 2am beeping that the boat was moving more than a certain distance.  We decided that we had dragged but were still OK as neither of us fancied getting up in the middle of the night with pouring rain to go and get the ancor up and try again and set the anchor watch to a slightly greater distance and hoped for the best..
First thing this morning, in daylight I went in the sea and snorkelled over the anchor line - it was 10M deep and clear sea so I could see the chain and anchor well.  It turned out that the anchor was lying on its back and not really gripping at all and not enough chain was out.  So up it came and we had anoher go and into the sea I went again to check on how the ancor was set and now it seemed OK - we just hope for a better nights sleep tonight. 
 
Last time I went swimming in the sea in Antigua I saw a Pelican flying and appeared to aim for me where I was swimming.  I know I am too big for it to swallow me but they are rather big birds and can give you quite a headache if they dive straight down at you.  Luckily it was aiming for some fish nearby...
 
Today we walked around Gustavia.  It was interesting as it is so Swedish.  Being French they all speak French but it belonged to Sweden for a while in the past and it has left quite a mark on it.  Here it is full of large superyachts both sail and motor and it is a place where the rich and famous come.  We paid 8 Euros for 2 small bears so it is probably the most expensive beers we have had so far. 
 
Some pictures below:
 
The Swedish church Tower and Katrin standing  by the door to the tower...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 A view from the hills of Gustavia over the harbour.  Island Kea is appx on the far right so a reasonably long dingy ride to land.  If we had the size of anchor Steve is standing by I am sure we would not drift on anchor... but it would probably sink the boat if we tried to carry it!!!