After a day getting our act together, doing the laundry and getting absolutely drenched again on the return dinghy trip form the supermarket, we set off for our southern trip this morning.

The Pitons that symbolise Saint Lucia are a lot bigger than we were expecting and are of most impressive size.  All the yachts moored around about Soufriere Bay look pretty meagre in the shadow of the Petit Piton let alone the Gros Piton.  It is a lovely spot. 

We had a good sail down from Rodney Bay with alternating lulls of 10 and gusts reaching 28.  We were too busy relaxing in the sunshine to fiddle about too much with the sails so were whizzing along for a few minutes all leant over and then fell back to doddling along.

Because you can only moor here, no anchoring permitted, there was a bit of a musical chairs to see who could get the few balls by the Bat Cave.  We had the advantage of a pair of boat boys who nipped ahead and bagged one and the French catamaran that was a good nose ahead dejectedly slunk away to the other side of the bay. It cost us a fiver (ECs so worth just over a quid) but it was well worth it for an absolute poll position.

We pottered ashore and had to face a cacophony of boys fighting over who would look after the dinghy.  We cunningly said we’d pay up on our return and handed over another fiver to one of the boys to share, he promptly legged it but then the boy with puppy dog eyes convinced Bob to pay up twice.  Sucker!

I had a wee snorkel around the bat cave and saw loads of fishes including the blue one that has an eye on its side. We’ve booked into a super looking restaurant for tonight.  Lets hope it is as good as it looks.