FROM ST LUCIA TO MARTINIQUE WITH RAY AND JULIE

shoelessjourney
Tom & Colette McCorkindale
Sun 29 Apr 2007 15:03

The route is now familiar to us, but we had not thought about the rain which seems to want to travel with us since we left St Lucia.  We left with a flotilla of Aussie's all with hangover, not looking forward to the hard windward treck to Barbados, and I guess now all the shouting will be over and there's another set of hangovers to be dealt with!

We went from Rodney Bay to Sainte Anne on Martinique and had a fine day's sail, putting on the engine for only the last couple of hours. As we needed to check-in, we ate on board, promising ourselves a trip to Marin for check-in the following day.  However, the rain gods had other ideas and that night was a wild one.  Ray and Tom eventually launched the dinghy and went across to Marin mid-morning, but by One O'clock the weather had cleared and we had a good scout around Sainte Anne after a very successful lunch, we even managed a late afternoons swim before sundowners.  The squalls have chased us since then, some hitting, others missing!

We are now at Trois Ilet with plans to leave Martinique for St. Lucia's Marigot Bay tomorrow. We have to walk to Anse Mitan to check-out, however, so always rooms for a few more squalls I guess!

 

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