The following day we had a really wicked sail down to St Lucia. We decided to skip Rodney bay and head to the south of the island where the Pitons are. It was about 35 odd miles so we left as soon as we woke up so we could spend the afternoon in St Lucia. Whilst in the channel we saw dolphins for the first time since we left main land Europe. They were brilliant and as usual were playing and swimming in front of the bow while sailing along. We also spend about half an hour bringing in a tuna fish we caught. It was quite small, about 5 kg but plenty for the two of us.
The pitons were beautiful, apart from the fact that because it was a nature reserve you were not allowed to anchor there so we had to get a buoy. Sym was not at all happy as apart from costing 30ec dollars he did not trust it as the rope attached to the buoy was all frayed and torn. Anyway it lasted us the day and nout bad happened. We spend the afternoon snorkelling and cooking our tuna fish ( skip Jack – according to our fish book ) on the bbq for dinner. It was absolutely delicious. I filleted it as usual ( as it makes Sym feel queasy) and there was enough to last us 3 days as well as feed the cats. We spend the evening looking at the stars and learning some of the constellations and planets off a program on the computer that Simon had copied for us. Nice One!
The next morning we left at first light and headed for Bequia in the Grenadines to meet Tallulah which was about 70 odd miles away. The sea state was brilliant, quite flat seas and about 15 knots of wind on the beam and we made good headway through the channel at about 8 knots. We arrived at Port Elizabeth about 4 pm and dropped the hook.
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