Antigua Pics 3
Tamarisk
Mon 10 Apr 2006 00:25
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We carried on making good use of our enforced stay
in Antigua. We spent a fair bit of time with Trond, Leslie, Colin and Camilla of
Coconut, which we enjoyed. They are spending a year in Antigua before going
on across the Pacific. For the last week or so we were anchored off Pigeon Beach
in Falmouth Harbour. The water is clean and you can swim from the boat
or the beach. There are plenty of beautiful yachts in Falmouth Harbour - some
already preparing for the race weeks that are coming up. We spent a couple
of days a few miles further east in Nonsuch Bay - a big Bay tucked behind Green
Island and a reef. We anchored in the smaller Brown's Bay on its South side
and behind the reef. Anchoring with nothing but a line of white water marking
the reef between us and the Atlantic was like being back in the Tobago
Cays. For a while we had Brown's Bay to ourselves which was great. We also
had a very good lunch in the Harmony Hall hotel that overlooks the bay. But
two and a half weeks was enough. Once we got the windlass going, we set off
for Nevis.
 Classic yacht practicising in Falmouth
Harbour
 Father and son relax after lunch
 Brown's Bay from Harmony Hall
 Eddie
 At last - alone in a bay with a beach and a
bar
 Looking East to the reef off Nonsuch
Bay
 Lunch after a swim
 An early start from Falmouth
 Sunrise over Antigua
 We passed Montserrat on the way to Nevis - smoke
rising from volcano on left of island
 Redonda - an uninhabited rock currently ruled by
King Robert Williamson of Antigua - known (according to the pilot book) as
'Bob the Bald'
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