Jan. 13, 2009 - Shark bait

After losing the 'monster from the deep' the other day as we sailed up from St Lucia to Martinique I have decided to start using live bait.  Fi and her sister Robbie, think they are having a a gentle swim on their 'woggles'  little do they know that in fact I am shark fishing - tee hee!!

We spent a great week in Martinique, firstly in St Pierre which unusually was quite empty, and then down south in Grand and Petit Anse D'Arlet. beautiful clear water, turtles and fish, great beach bars, only marred by the French gits who have no clue how to anchor.  I even had to rescue one guy who's boat was drifting on top of us as he had so little anchor chain out it was barely touching the bottom. 

It may be the Caribbean but its still winter and dire forecasts of a tropical wave, ie nasty weather were made so we had a great sail back down to St Lucia in 25 kots of wind and are now tucked up in Rodney bay marina again.  Quite funny really as the dock staff told us that many boats had left - got out of the bay - and immediately turned back 'because it was so rough' on the day we came over.  They were mostly 'merkins' from the good old USA and are obviously not used to British weather.

Gonna rent a car tomorrow and take Robbie around the Island then probably just mosey around here until she flys out on the 23rd, or something.