Apr. 24, 2009 - So long and thanks for all the fish

So we headed back to Bequia for a couple of days and then set off North to St Lucia.  An absolutely glorious sail, despite the wind being only just free.  Capped by yet another sodding great Wahoo that got away – top right of first photos.  It took about 15 minutes to fight it up to the boat and then only a few seconds for the wire trace to snap, at least we got a photo this time rather than pinching one of the interweb.  A quite night in Marigot bay and a final ‘sail’ up the marina in Rodney bay – notice the top left photo with me in full foulies as it poured down.

I’ve taken a random set of photos of this season just to try and sum up the whole trip.  It was very different to last year as we were not exploring new places, rather picking the best ones we knew to go back to.  We met many old friends and made quite few new ones, raced the boat and finished in the top ten (OK so there were only ten in the class) caught and lost loads of fish,  ate those we caught, drank rum,gin,beer and wine, plus whatever our friends brought out with them (thanks, Robbie, Peter, Matt, Penny, Dai and Loraine) watched many fantastic sunsets, and saw several green flashes, only ran aground once, never dragged our anchor and only felt like murdering charter/French boats on a few occasions.  The sun shone, often the rain fell (but it was warm), the wind varied from calm to bloody windy, but not once between November to May did it snow, hail or coldly drizzle.

Back to Blighty in 10 days………………..