Some Photos at last!! Of course, not necessarily in the right order! The sulphur pool is in Dominica. My tattoo is for Valentine's day - it's a grapefruit getting inside me!



The sunsets are also in Dominica, Turner would have peed his pants! The next view is Fort de France in Martinique - actually, that was the best thing about Martinique!

The White Winds Crew - self portrait by the (pi**) artist










A hawksbill turtle in Hospital in Bequia and the Canadian yacht owned by Fi and Don who were with us in Saltwhistle Bay in Mayreux. Also a map on the church wall with a native guide "we are here"

Swinging through the trees in St Lucia, and two of the local lads from Laborie, who helped us when we found the reef - the hard way - but it was uncharted!

I went to Martinique, but it was closed!

.....by a strike

we thought at first it was half-day closing, but it was more serious. At least Customs was painless.


The most painful thing was the holes (20 or so) made in the dinghy by some mindless idiots. The fact that they threw things at myself and André was just a courtesy detail. Difficult to navigate a dinghy with 2 out of 3 chambers flat! Much glue later, it still leaks. Do I feel a new dink coming on?

The island is very French, none of the patois of the other islands, just plain French. It is also a baguette each day arrangement, where if you don't eat it on the day, you can use the baton for hand-to-hand combat!

There is a problem now with food and water supply, so we will head off tomorrow for Dominica.

Must remember to bring the camera in to add some photos.....


Had a query about what happened - Andrew asked what had gone on, so we figured that a bit more of an explanantion was needed.

this is what we emailed to Andrew.hope it made sense...
We went for a meal, leaving the dink moored at the purpose built dinghy dock. The only thing we did this time that was different was to lock it with a chain....came back from a restaurant to find that in our absence two out of three chambers had been stabbed, the front 20+ times, one of the rear had a 7 inch gash.

Amazingly it still floated, but I had to steer backwards to stop the water washing over. Anyway, Sam and I got back safely, so I left her on the boat while I went back for Andre. It was when I was 30 yards from him on shore that the throwing started.

Luckily I know the French for "W*nker", but I guess if I had been able to get onto the dock I would have done something stupid, so just as well I couldn't!!

Tried sticking it with what we could get, but no good....new dink required - sod it!

hope it made sense!

Random thoughts

Hi to All

We are back in Bequia. One of the nice features of Port Elizabeth is a service delivering diesel and water to your boat - neat!

There are also laundry boats - I just wonder - if they pass too close and too fast, do they create a wash?!!

On the islands, we often hear goats. Usually they are tethered, but there are the odd scapegoats (or do I mean "escaped goats"). What puzzles me is this. If goats eat anything, why don't they eat the tether?

Back to more ordinary matters, we will probably leave here tomorrow heading North. It will either be Antigua or Martinique - guess we'd better decide before too much longer.....