Hanging out in the islands

We are online so can bring everyone up to date of our journeys. We left Martinique and moved up to Dominica and have been here for just over a week. This island or as I should say country, is sort of the old type of Caribbean island with very friendly people and a slow way of life that is very attractive. We arrived up in at the north end of the island in Portsmouth bay and met with the original owners of Kilkea II Dave and Chis. We had three days hanging out with them and had a great time with so many stories of past times as they helped us out by staying for three weeks and giving us our only sailing instructions which seem to have worked out pretty good. We even had a couple of old 2003 wines that we had bought in Florida in 2006 and opened them up and found to our surprise that they were still very good. So those bottles have traveled sixty thousand miles and have gone around the world shaken and bounced and are still good. Amazing! It was good to see them and their new boat called Platina II which they are now getting organized to do a circumnavigation with. We wish we were just starting out again as it was just so much fun.

We did some tours around the island and today did a seven mile backtrack to a little bay with a resort called the Sunset Bay Club which is noted for its lobsters. Well we had lunch which went on for most of the afternoon and when the sun set there was no way we could eat any dinner. It was a great meal and anyone coming this way should stop by. I think a couple of pounds of lobster is more than enough.

Tomorrow we will head north again and as we here the islands called the Saints off the south end of Guadeloupe is really crowded with charter boats, We will move up the west coast and spend a night then move on the next day for Antigua where we think some of the boats we have met around the world may be hanging out.

On the boat sale front nothing other than a few inquiries but we will leave that to the sales team. We would be surprised if anything happens as this is the end of the sailing season for the Caribbean and will not start to get going again until the end of October so maybe then?