14.30.263N   061.05.354W

 

On the 2nd January we moved North the 8 miles to the anchorage at Pigeon Island which is very pleasant but the forecast was for a couple of days of bad weather and we wanted to do some provisioning so after a couple of days we headed into Rodney Bay Marina for a couple of nights. The wet and windy weather turned this into 6 which was convenient and sociable!

 

   

It rains in St Lucia too!

 

We got the ‘dollar bus’ to Castries- the island’s capital – but we found it disappointing.Very much geared to selling trinkets to cruise ship tourists we did not find anything to recommend it- even our lunch!

 

Foiled again in Castries!

 

Outside the marina was a 24metre Jongert called ‘Uisge Beathe’ with Henk and Liz on board- they used to live in Kilmelford!

 

The unsettled weather passed through and we headed back out to anchor off Pigeon before heading North to Martinique.

 

   

Fishermen at Pigeon Island                                                             Gregory the floating fruit seller

 

A glorious close reach in 12 knots of wind but a lumpy sea was replaced by a squall that backed the wind 30 degrees and gusted to 27 knots!

 

 

However in the lee off Martinique all was quiet and we picked up a new ( free ! ) mooring ( EU Money! ) in Grand Anse D’Arlet after 4 hours sailing.   24.6 miles logged

 

   

 

   

Sunday was a glorious day and Matti arrived in his Swan 46 “Eclipse” – first met in La Gomera over 2 years ago!