Guadeloupe, hike

The whole crew went on a hike today. Interesting hike. Done in Tor pace, so lots of time to explore and play.
Still not sure if we leave Basse-Terre tomorrow, or if we wait for better weather. Quite rainy right now, and windy.

Guadeloupe, not always sunshine in Caribbean

Jakob and Rolf left Dominica yesterday. So we're only 7 people onboard for the next three weeks. Nice with more room onboard. I moved cabin last night. Got Jakobs old bed. Bigger than my last one, and with more room for luggage. Perfect.

I has been raining for a couple of days now, so spending moree onboard.

Went big time shopping yesterday. Bought 30 litres of milk and lots more. Nice to have a big crew. We had to carry the stuff for about 3 kilometres.

today, we're hoping for less rain. Planning a three hour hike.

Guadeloupe, sailing from Dominica

Left Dominica at 8 in the morning.
Pretty strong winds, and after getting out of shelter from the island, we had about 10 m/s winds. Plenty for our ship. And excellent speed according to the boys. Around 6.5 knots average speed.

I had a little taste of the big waves. Well, the skipper said they were "only 2 metres high" didn't get seasick, so feel pretty good about sailing at the moment. Crossing the Atlantic might be a different story though :-)

I'm also getting pretty confident with the dingi - taxing crew members on land or to the ship.

We are ankering at Basse-Terre on Guadeloupe. This first night might be a bit rough. Strong winds, and some waves.
But didn't sleep much last night with around 30 degrees in the cabin, and an early start. I "slept" the last two hours in the cockpit. But winds and rain made it hard. So I think this night will go easy cause of the lack of sleep.

we arrived in Basse-Terre at 1PM. Much sooner than expected. This gave us time for a good walk around in the city. Strange with everything in French now, and European standards again. Only one island away from the poor, but wonderful Dominica. I already find the poor islands much more interesting than the rich ones.

it's 10 PM now. Rasmus is finishing his homework. Jakob is sewing his sandals in the cockpit, where I'm enjoying some quiet time.
The rest of the crew is already in bed after the long day.

Dominica, Caught huge fish

Rolf, Rasmus, Bjarke, Ole and I went fishing today. Our guide picked us up at our boat at 15:00
Well Caribbean time (twenty minutes late)
We went straight west for about 30 minutes. Some nets there attacks small fish. And the small fish attacks bigger fish. And so on.
The skipper said we had to catch dinner first. Twenty minutes later we had caught two nice tunas.
A small tuna was used as bait. Half an hour later the big one, a blue Marlin, caught our bait.
The skipper and his helper was fighting for about 20 minutes before landing it. Awesome experience!
Now we are waiting to taste it.

Dominica, chillin in the dingi

Getting water is hard work. Today, I'm taking care of the dingi while Rolf and Bjarke is doing the hard work...
They are complaining  every time they get back to the bridge..... Poor kids...
I'm am learning to sail the dingi at the moment..

Dominica, Indian river tour

A local guide, Marcaronny, took us on a tour on the nearby Indian river. Nice tour with lots of birds, trees and interesting stories. Some of the scenes in "pirates of the Caribbean" are filmed in this river. A scene with a witch.
We had a juice half way, turned back, and went back to our ship for lunch.
Now, a swim is waiting.... Around 30 degrees at the moment.

Dominica, geocaching

The whole crew went geocaching today. Not sure it was the original plan for the day, but after lunch (price 1.2€) at a local place we went for a walk, and ended up heading for a nearby cache.
It was located in another part of Portsmouth. A neighbourhood where about 2000 americans live. There is a medicine university with 1500 students. A huge contrast with this American style neighbourhood next to the poor neighbourhood. 300m from our boat there is people living in a little house in a tree, so we're definitely in the poor part.
The cache was very different compared with the ones I've found. It was located in a bar with a fantastic view. We had a drink, and a long chat with the Dutch owner, Hans.
Afterwards we went shopping in a American style supermarket with lots of American products.

Back on the beach Tor and I enjoyed the swallow water, and played with a waboba ball. A ball which skips on the water.

Tomorrow, were going on a tour up the Indian river with a guide and his boat.