Martinique - St Pierre
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14:44.452N 61:10.651W 9th January MARTINIQUE - St Pierre We had a very lively sail across
to Martinique, with the winds reaching 34 knots at one stage! We dropped our
anchor in the bay of the pretty seaside town of St Pierre which lies at the
foot of the Mount Pelee’ volcano on the west coast. Ashore with Mark and Chrissy we
visited the ruins of the Theatre and Prison, which was built below the Theatre.
Rumour has it that when the side of the volcano facing St Pierre burst open in
1902 killing nearly 30,000 people only 2 survivors in the town remained, Leon
Leandre a cobbler and Cyparis who was imprisoned for murder who was in a stone
cell. Opposite the ruins we spotted a
homemade sign for fruit cocktails. A small bar had been set up in a room at
the front of a house, with just two tables, four chairs and a rubber plant in
the corner, the four of us soon filled the place! We had a delicious cocktail
of fresh fruits and local rum. Later in the afternoon Fia Tira
and Scott Free – who are a mother and daughter crew - anchored in the bay
and the following day we met up with them for coffee. Whilst we were all ashore
Scott Free began to drag their anchor and was soon drifting off to sea, luckily
Mark and Chrissy had returned to their boat and noticing Scott Free was missing
jumped into their dinghy, the boat had drifted quite a way out. Mark slowly
towed the boat back into the bay with his dinghy! Excelsior Tours Has now branched
out into Search and Rescue. When we were in Dominica Mark organised a water
taxi to take 10 of us ashore that evening calling himself Excelsior Tours so
when anything needs organising now we call on Excelsior Tours. We lifted our anchor mid-day heading for Fort-De-France, where
Duco on Briet had a lobster pot wrapped around his propeller and he needed the
help of Paul and Mark and their dive equipment.
St Pierre
Cocktails
for 4
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