Johanna
N 14° 26.374', W 60° 53.104'
Lucky for us this is only an Overseas Department of France and we are not back on the continent of Europe.
But first I'll write something about our visit to Bridgetown, Barbados.
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| I'm not really a beach person, but I sure like to looking at one. |
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| There were plenty of these places in town where we could tie our dinghy. |
I know that there comes a time when we have to take our dinghy to the beach, we even have wheels in the dinghy for that. Lucky for us they had these landings. because there was quite a large swell which would have made it very difficult (and wet) to land on the beach.
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| For some reason I seem to be unable to take any pictures of the streets, only of the water. |
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| The view to the other direction. |
After about two weeks it was time to change scenery and we sailed to Martinique.
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| Clearing in and out on the French islands is very easy. We go into a marina office and fill out a form on a computer and then print it out. Staff stamps it and we are all done. The most difficult part is using a French keyboard. If you've ever used one, you know what I'm talking about. |
When we arrived in Le marin, we achored in a nice spot very near the dinghy landings. It also showed on the chart that it was forbidden to anchor in that spot, but since there were other boat too , we did it anyways. Today we had to move, because they are having a sail race there tomorrow. No problem, we moved to the anchorage in Sainte-Anne. We stay here over the weekend and then we return, maybe to the same place. The water in Le Marin is not very clear and there are also so many boats that I don't believe the water is very clean. Here the water is clear and we can swim again. We kind of got to used to swimming already in Barbados.
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| We don't know if the race tomorrow is on these traditional boats or something else. When we were told to move, Timo was also handed two sheets of paper about it, but all the text is in French... |
