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| Johan and Åse drove us around in their rental car in Sant Martin, an island both French and Dutch. They took their flight bag from the Dutch airport of the island to reach a travel back to Norway from Guadeloupe, while Philipp and me headed towards some Spanish speaking islands further west. It's really a mess here with languages, counties and currencies. |
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| Grocery stores on small islands or close to not-so-centrally located anchorages have often interesting selections of pricey items. The store in Isla de Culebra would not have many vegetables or bread, but what they did have was butter made in Finland. |
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| Green turtles are common to see, but really hard to photograph. |
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| Isla de Culebra in Spanish Virgin Islands is among our favorites. It's an old military island with a lot of nature, social sailors, no superyachts nor posh marinas. We found lonely turtle beaches, nice hiking and reasonably healthy coral reefs. The depressing news from our extensive snorkeling surveys at the Antilles so far is that most of the coral reefs are as good as dead. The reasons are many (dirty water because of farming and cutting down the forests, overfishing, pollution ...) but probably all caused by humans. |
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| A friendly dog who took us for a walk on Isla de Culebra |
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| Old town of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, colors colors, everywhere colors! Philipp and Kiwi will hang out in San Juan for two of weeks while Sanja takes a well deserved break from the boat life. |
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