We sailed with haste from Guadeloupe to Grenada last week. The journey was planned with as many miles per day depending on conditions and the fewest customs clearances necessary. A loose and hopeful itinerary was scrawled on a post it note that lives adhered to the galley table. I added a destination among the considered possibilities and mileage’s between St Lucia and Grenada that read “a beautiful anchorage for Pia in St Vincent.” Captain had previously mentioned a northern anchorage that I would love, one of the most breathtaking he’d seen. My wish was granted; Chateaubelair! The above photo is at sunset, a local who had come to sell us coconuts he just harvested from the shore paddled away in a hand carved boat.
We arrived in the evening and as suspected, I took a ridiculous amount of photographs until I had to jump in for a swim. We were in Rodney Bay marina in St Lucia the previous two days and although “onshore excursions and activities” were entertaining, I missed the ocean. As mentioned in my last post about Dominica, you’re not to leave the water if you haven’t gone through proper customs registration. I swam to shore though. I had to explore the trees at least a little. I happened to be among the palms in the exact moment when the cricket/circada eruption of chirping chorus began simultaneous to the sunset. No sunset pictures from this locale because I chose to view it fully presently floating about in the warm water.
