In case you didn't know, it's my birthday. I have spent the past year celebrating my sixtieth, now here we are at sixty-one. Will the party continue?.... stay tuned.
Before leaving Deshaies, K and I climbed the hill up to the Botanical Gardens. These are not cheap, 14 Euro each, but they are beautifully maintained with a lovely array of tropical shrubs, trees and orchidae from arround the world. Here is a photo of K in her St. Kitts batik dress, dappled by the sun. In the afternoon, we departed for points south.
Pigeon Island is a small bit of basalt outcrop not far from shore halfway down the West coast of Guadeloupe. It is known as a diving site and has moorings dotted around the permimenter, some for dive boats and some for yachts. We managed to pick up a yacht mooring and spent the afternoon and night within 50 ft. of the rock, north swell picking up as we stayed, crashing up aganst the rocks. We enjoyed a lovely swim with mask and snorkel around the rocks. The coral is budding, but from the chunks of coral washed up on the beach, Hurricane Hugo did some major damage here. All the coral is young. The good news is that it seems to be coming back. There are lots of small reef fish close inshore, and midwater yellow tail snappers and sailor's choice out off the moorings.
Next morning, with the swell picking up, we cast off the mooring and pushed south again, passing Basseterre as a bad idea and ushed on for the Saints, a small group of islands off the South West corner of Guadeloupe.
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