In St. Lucia

This morning we left St. Vincent and the Grenadines and went to a brand new country, St. Lucia. Again we made our lunches and knew in advance that for about 1 hour it would be extremely rough and yes it was. We have information booklets, with aerial photos, diagrams and advise on every island we are going to visit. I had too much sun yesterday so I wore a t-shirt and sat on the back cockpit most of the day. We charted the course right to the famous Pitons, the two mountains that are known in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. Many boats were ahead of us and many behind us on this journey. Turns out that I estimate that 60% are like the one we are on, a Catamaran … which means two hulls, 30% are sailboats, this catamaran sails too but sailboats are monohull (one) and have a keel (under the boat to keep from tipping right over), 10% only are motor monohull boats like our Calypso at home. Now, this will change drastically as we head north out of East Caribbean. Motorboats like ours will become more common and more sailboats.

We are sitting in Marigot Bay which is a major check-in point here, our Q flag is flying and we will go to customs in the morning as it closed at 4:30pm today. We are able to check-in and out all one stop if we are leaving St. Lucia in 3 nights. This bay has a marina, stores, restaurants, etc. etc. We will head to Rodney Bay tomorrow which is bigger and better and less expensive. This is still St. Lucia and only a short jaunt compared to the last couple of day. We have locals coming up to our boat constantly wanting to sell everything from bread to fish. We are all well, we will have more to write about when we pick up James in Guadeloupe. We will slow down and do a lot more. We don't want to miss our deadline to get him next Sat. We have to go to Martinique then Dominica and then finally Guadeloupe so we are right ahead of schedule. Xxoo everyone!