St Lucia – Marigot Bay to Rodney Bay

It rains in the night but only for a few minutes, nowhere near enough time or water to wash off the mountains of salt that were deposited on Jeannius during yesterday’s sail.

Mike has perfect internet connection but immediately I get on to try to use it, it plays up.  Hopefully we will get decent, reliable wifi once we are in Rodney Bay Marina. 

Mike goes off to make us legal at customs and I play with the camera as Marigot Bay is extremely photogenic – they filmed ‘Dr Dolittle’ here with Rex Harrison many years ago, although it is very much more built up now with huge condos, hotels and shops.

  Photos:  Views of Marigot Bay, St Lucia

We leave quite late in the morning as we only have six miles to travel up the coast to Rodney Bay.  Like yesterday, there is a huge amount of traffic on the sea.  Water taxis fly by, there are tour catamarans everywhere, more yachts than you can shake a stick at, commercial traffic and cruise liners.

Photo:  “You wait all day for a yacht then three come along!”

Photo:  Jeannius and Goliath

Photo:  We count 4 cruise liners in town which explains the day cats!

Photo:  The Queen Mary II is too big to get into port so waits outside ferrying her passengers to and fro

Photo:  Sailing past the Queen Mary II

Photo:  A Jolly Roger yacht, its passengers lobster red and legless on rum punch!

We arrive in Rodney Bay just after lunchtime and have a drink to celebrate.  The weather is glorious - clear and hot – and the sea in the bay is a beautiful shade of turquoise.

We have internet connection and make use of it, celebrating while we do, with a drink.  We got here and nothing broke!!

For lunch I make spicy pumpkin and coconut soup while Mike takes a little nap.  Later he goes into the marina to visit Island Water World and arrange for our new anchor chain, all 330 feet of it, to be delivered tomorrow when we are on the dock.  The rest of the afternoon is spent with me sleeping my white wine off and Mike fretting about how much he has to do before the start of the World ARC.  The thing is, when I question him about what exactly he has to do, he can’t think of many things, which makes him then think that he has forgotten them!  I think he’s just been organised and done them already.  We’ll see.

Note to Dr Walker:  You asked about which system we use.  It’s this one http://www.ubnt.com/products/bullet.php (the 2HP model).