fredag 15 maj 2009
St Martin
Hi There !
Again in english...
We are now in St Maarten, on the Duch side of this Duch/French island. To come here from Gouadeloupe we visited the Islands of Montserrat, St Kitts and St Eustatius. On the sail to Montserrat, we catched a nice tuna--mmm ! On Montserrat, which has a Vulcano which is since 1995 erupting regulary, we made a tour with a local guide which brought us as close to the vulcano and the old maintown as possible. That was totally unbeliveble, to see a town which just 10 years ago had maybe 12000 people living there totally dead, mostly under mud. A lot of big luxury villas are empty with thik vulcanodust everywhere and people will probably never come back to them. At the same time the other halv off the island which was not specially populated before, now has a lot off new buiding, and the progress off getting a functional new main town is impressing.
On the trip from Montserrat to St Kitts we meet a group of Dolphins which played with our boat for maybe 15 min. Totally magic !
From St Kitts we wanted to sail to St Martin, but much wind, seasickness and gasoline in the bilges whith its smell made us change course to St Eustatius. There it took me some time to get up on my feet again... No cooling water on the way to the mooring showed to be the Impeller which I later had to change. Never fun to fix the engine...
But St Eustatius showed to be a really nice island . We had a looong walk up onto the rim of the old vulkano from where we could look down into the crater which now has rainforrest and a rich birdlife.
Snorkelling was not so nice as too large swells, even if it normally is one of the best places for diving and snorkeling.
From the boat i catched a little shark after dippoing the hook for maybe 10 seconds into the water. Around the hook were by that time already 5-6 sharks...
Nice taste to eat, but swimming is not as much fun since that...
Now here on St Martin we are preparing us and the boat for our longest trip of ca 2300sm to the Azores. We will start in 1-2 weeks, depending on the weather.
Best regards
Again in english...
We are now in St Maarten, on the Duch side of this Duch/French island. To come here from Gouadeloupe we visited the Islands of Montserrat, St Kitts and St Eustatius. On the sail to Montserrat, we catched a nice tuna--mmm ! On Montserrat, which has a Vulcano which is since 1995 erupting regulary, we made a tour with a local guide which brought us as close to the vulcano and the old maintown as possible. That was totally unbeliveble, to see a town which just 10 years ago had maybe 12000 people living there totally dead, mostly under mud. A lot of big luxury villas are empty with thik vulcanodust everywhere and people will probably never come back to them. At the same time the other halv off the island which was not specially populated before, now has a lot off new buiding, and the progress off getting a functional new main town is impressing.
On the trip from Montserrat to St Kitts we meet a group of Dolphins which played with our boat for maybe 15 min. Totally magic !
From St Kitts we wanted to sail to St Martin, but much wind, seasickness and gasoline in the bilges whith its smell made us change course to St Eustatius. There it took me some time to get up on my feet again... No cooling water on the way to the mooring showed to be the Impeller which I later had to change. Never fun to fix the engine...
But St Eustatius showed to be a really nice island . We had a looong walk up onto the rim of the old vulkano from where we could look down into the crater which now has rainforrest and a rich birdlife.
Snorkelling was not so nice as too large swells, even if it normally is one of the best places for diving and snorkeling.
From the boat i catched a little shark after dippoing the hook for maybe 10 seconds into the water. Around the hook were by that time already 5-6 sharks...
Nice taste to eat, but swimming is not as much fun since that...
Now here on St Martin we are preparing us and the boat for our longest trip of ca 2300sm to the Azores. We will start in 1-2 weeks, depending on the weather.
Best regards
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