Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Escape from Gustavia

Our departure from the mooring field in Gustavia was fortunately much
less dramatic than our entrance! After 4 days of being pushed around
by north wind and seas, combined with 8 hours a day of jack hammers on
the construction site about 50 yards away we were ready to get out of
town. But we'll miss the bakery!

We're now anchored at Anse de Colombier on the NW corner of St.
Barths. We have beautiful clear water, some good marine life (Fay saw
a manta ray take fight out of the water) and had a nice sunset.
Unfortunately the north seas are wrapping all the way around to the NW
opening to this little bay and we're rolling around quite a bit.

We're out of WiFi range now so no internet and not much email. We'll
catch up with everyone when we get to Antigua next week.

We're expecting to meet some friends here tomorrow afternoon, and a
second boat of friends arrives on Friday. Could be pretty social for
a few days!