17:38.786N 063:14.972W Update : Nevis to Saba
Shaya Moya
Don & Susan Smyth
Fri 15 Apr 2011 15:17
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I'm so far behind with all the blogs that I've
decided to do a few very short and to the point ones to catch up. Pictures will
follow in another entry later.
Tuesday 29th March:
We left Nevis this morning early one passenger less
after leaving Annie with some land lubbers. She wanted to stay, so we let her.
Sailed a good distance to a little island called Saba pronounced Saber. The
island is part of the Dutch empire so to speak and is actually very cool.
Apparently it all started when a bunch of misfits, English,Dutch, French and a
few freed Africans decided they'd had enough with the world and sort out their
own little spot. Saba has been cut off from everywhere for so long that they
really do live in their own form of reality. It's like one of the islands
Gulliver would visit. The houses are all built the same and painted the same
colours, the town on the windward side of the island is called Windward Side and
the town on the southern side of the island is called Bottom. There's also a
dive company in Bottom called Dive...Get it Dive in Bottom ( I crack me up
:).
Anyway... We took a cab up from the dodging
dock in Bottom to the Capital and had a great dinner in what is certainly the
strangest place in the world before descending down their homemade 50 degree
road and dingying through the darkness with passenger screaming home for the
night. Thanks for all the laughs Saba.
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