Guadeloupe and Antigua

Guadeloupe offered some excellent rock hopping/canyoning/river walking. As we rely on the pilot book by Donald Street Jr from the 70s for ideas of where to go (and for sailing conditions), it happens that we find pearls like this river behind Deshaies, with nobody else.

P smears a winch, there is always some maintenance to keep him busy.

Pancake shaped and well ventilated - Antigua in the horizon

Johan and Åse came to skipper the ship from Guadeloupe to St Marting, a well welcomed company of sane people : )

In Antigua we were among the poor ones. Never seen this many superyachs and shiny oversized sailing boats with payed crews

Ants cutting leaves - another exotic bug

Les Saintes - Nous sommes divorces

If sailing around Atlantic with the special person of your life isn't challenging
enough in it self, one thing to do is a go through a process of separation while
sailing. A great passtime in the cockpit is to end a more than a seven years bath
together and conclude that the there is no next sailing trip for us as a couple.
Then, after you have agreed on the divorce, you find out that continuing sailing
together in the Caribbean for couple of months is the only way to proceed.

For the devastation in our personal life, surf beaches of Tartane in north Martinique turned out to be the best cure

In Les Saintes, just south of Guadeloupe, we were lucky enough to anchor next to a colony of pelicans

Until now, most of the anchorages in this side of the Atlantic have been lonely. The one in Terre-de-hout in Les Saintes deserves to be photographed for its crowdedness.

Les Saintes - here you know where the wind blows

Dominica in the background

On our hiking expedition on Les Saintes, we heard several of these lizard falling of the trees from sheer panic while hearing us approaching. I dont take it personally, no matter how impressive, they dont appear very smart.

... as opposed to this one.

Martinique

Kiwi enjoying a well deserved rest on her anchorage at Cul de sac Fregate - since two weeks now : )

While Kiwi takes a break, Eva, Jelle and me got to discover the surroundings (including coral reefs) with Gerald's Hoby cat

Wet suit is not because the water being cold, but to protect from sea urchins and other potentially spiky or poisonous marine life.

indigenous people harvesting coconuts

Hiking in Martinique is not really possible because of all the poisonous snakes. At the same time, nobody we talked to has ever seen one.

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