Friday, May 09, 2008


Can you see our boat down there? We hiked up to the old fort in English harbor (every island seems to have its own fort, lots of fighting over the island real estate amongst the European powers a couple of hundred years ago). At English Harbor they have preserved and restored the old dockyard where Horatio Nelson was in command.

We moved on from English Harbor, Antigua, on Friday May 2, and anchored in Des Haies, Guadeloupe. The highlight of Guadeloupe so far was Pigeon Island, on the west coast, where we took a mooring for the day to snorkel and swim in the Cousteau National Underwater Park. Lots of coral and more reef fish than we have seen for a while.
We stopped in Basse Terre, where we spent two miserable rolly nights, trying this and that to stop the roll. A whole day on anchoring, re-anchoring, setting a stern anchor, trying a swell bridle, and it still rolled so we couldn't sleep well.
We gave up and sailed over to the Saintes, a lovely group of islands south of Guadeloupe with a wonderful protected harbor. And, yet another fort to explore!

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