2024-05-19 Hiking on Terre-de-Haut, and visiting Saint-Francois

We took a great hike with our friends on Wanderlust, Melelana, and met new friends David and Kami off of MakaniKai.  The hike was up to the top of the 1013 ft. hill.   We decided to take the trail up, and the road back down, which is the way to do it.   The trail to scramble up is 4000 ft. long  which make the average angle of the climb about 26%.  The road down is longer, but not as steep.  Keep in mind that the temperature is around 85 degrees, but feels about 10 degrees warmer with the humidity around 70% to 80%.  We drink lots of water, and sweat a lot.

Lots of goats at the start of the trail - not too afraid of us

2024-05-12 Week in Guadeloupe - Rain, hiking and snorkeling Jaques Cousteau Reserve

We had a good sail down from Antigua to Deshaies, Guadeloupe.  Calmish seas, and good winds.

Really stressful sailing 😀

2024-05-10 Visit to Botanical Gardens in Deshaies, Guadeloupe (bonus blog)

Went with our friends on Tracy on Wanderlust, David and Kim on Melelana and Shirley and Alan on Lattitude Adjustment to the Botanical Gardens in Deshaies on Guadeloupe.

After a very sweaty 1 mile walk all uphill to get there, we spent a hour wandering the gardens.  Very nice.  All the signage in French, so mostly wandering and enjoying.

Lots of photos below of botanical garden views.

2024-05-05 Falmouth Harbor and Antigua Race Week

We stayed a couple more days in Jolly Harbor.  We went for a nice hike to the top of Pearns Hill.  It was a pretty steep climb, and we were breathing hard at the top.  A development is planned so it has signs for the lots, and paved roads.

Hard to see in the photo, but the road is probably a 40 degree incline.

2024-04-28 More time in Barbuda, and on to Antigua

We hung out in Barbuda for a few more days.  Went over to our friends boat Matcha, and helped them start up their watermaker, which had been pickled for a while.  They recently purchased the boat, and just wanted moral support for the start up.  Everything went well, so no issues.

Sunrise at Barbuda

2024-04-20 Moved to Barbuda

We stayed in St. Martin a few more days.  

One of our hatch screen had a rip in it.  Kris had sewn it up a couple of times, but we decided to replace/repair the whole screen.  We did not have any white screen material, which was what the hatches originally had, but had black.  It turned out OK, other than not matching the rest.  At least no rips in it anymore.

New screen installed.  Kris holding old ripped one up.

2024-04-14 Still just hanging out in St. Martin

Well, we have not moved in the last week.  Heavy NE winds kept us here, plus in no hurry to move on anywhere.  Just doing daily living stuff.

Really exciting things 😜like Kris sewed a new cover for the bean bag in the cockpit

Old bag, made of cheap vinyl just to see if we would use it, and what size to make it.