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That's it, tomorrow we leave for the bouncer back to the Azores. Here is an overview of our adventures on this little piece of France that is St Martin.
To begin, the island is separated into two, part French and part Dutch. In the French capital Marigot and (where we are right now) we find the charm of a French resort. The atmosphere is relaxed, the streets full of designer boutiques (we do not pay taxes here), we came across the national police and 206. We pay in euros, there are bakeries and even a newsagent. The Dutch side, who Batavian that has no name, you pay in U.S. dollars, we speak English and there are casinos, nightclubs and huge luxury hotels that includes the island.
is a great base for boating Caribbean, the largest lagoon in the closed interior of the island can accommodate thousands of boats, there are major hardware stores such as supermarkets, sailmakers, workings ... in short the ideal to work before a bouncer, that's good!
We spend so few days enjoying the pleasures of France, especially culinary found here pate, cheese and real bread! We take the information we need to work and recovered Olivier J. which we had left a few weeks earlier. We enjoy being in the corner to go for a ride to the nearby island of St Barthelemy (French too) and being green in beautiful anchorages, certainly our last of the Caribbean zone, sniff sniff. The island is very beautiful, a little smaller than its neighbor and given the luxury holiday homes is not surprising that this is a haunt of celebrities. We will spend a few days before heading back to St Martin. This allows us to watch live Semifinals league champions, to go see a magnificent parade of carnival Dutch side, and finally start our work.
Once the boat out of the water, we can begin. Programme: fairing, changing some valves, clean diesel tank, full of food and water, sails and review crafts of all kinds. A week later the boat is ready to return to the water. And there is the drama: a new valve installed is not waterproof! A crane later here again the racket dry for the weekend, missing the time for us back in the water before Friday evening. The crew does not, however, leaves removed and dignified celebration of 8 months of cohabitation.
In the meantime we also welcomed Fabrice, our new foam that will accompany us to the Azores. We now have before us between 2000 and 2400 miles of ocean that we should take three weeks to a month. The sailors are happy to sail again and to leave the Caribbean to join other horizons and will greet you upon our arrival in the Azores for a new episode.
Virgin Islands, known as the BVI, British Virgin Island, to the English part, are a group of ten islands in the north of West Indies, east of Puerto Rico. It is a true paradise: the islands hilly and sometimes fringed beaches surrounded by coral reefs, lush vegetation ... Unfortunately, the BVI are victims of their success and we came across dozens / hundreds of sailboats rental and anchorages are crowded, but curiously the coastline and the sea are quite well preserved. Point "positive" in this glut of boat is the profusion of yachts / yacht billionaire has seen several 3 masts over 90 feet, huge catamarans (including that of Richard Branson), and Yacht worthy of Paris Hilton ... well it's nice. By cons like Julien said at the end of his last article, all this abundance of beautiful boats do not always allow us to go to the kings of the anchorage and it further strengthens our image that we had forgotten tramps from Los Roques ... an aside on 2 islands that we particularly appreciated:
The most beautiful island we visited is Virgin Gorda , vous pouvez voir les vues spectaculaires que nous avons du haut de cette ile, des lagons d’eaux turquoises entourés de corail… c’est aussi l’ile aux énormes rochers qui trainent sur les plages créant des grottes naturelles magnifiques.
Anegada , la plus sauvage, est l’île la plus au Nord des Antilles, avec 203 habitants (en 2003) et une flore impressionnante : elle ne culmine qu’à 8 mètres mais il y a des dizaines d’espèces d’arbres/arbustes/cactus/fleurs différentes, et une faune tout aussi riche : tortues de mers, flamands roses...
En tout nous avons visité 4 iles et en general we do a first location and then we come back the next day for the day. We do not linger too because life is really expensive, $ 50 lobster, and we especially look forward to landing at St. Martin, French Island, where we hope to find a bit more infrastructure and above all products French: cream, cheese, charcuterie, Jenlain
... So we start on April 17 of Anegada to Saint Martin, and history that will change a little of almost 24 hours. That means we have slashed in Marigot (capital of the island), which does not prevent us to forge ahead on the internet and the first supermarket and found that feast: 2 cheeses, 2 blocks and 3 sticks, you forget the red but we will catch up the next time.
Here we are almost one month to the program: the necessary repairs before the recliner back, a visit to St. Martin, the carnival, discovered the islands in the vicinity ...