Knot Normal - The Adventure

We anchored at Anse Le Cochon (cove of the domestic pig in French).  Sort of fitting for me.  Knot Normal is the Catamarn on the right. We are having a nice lunch and beers at Ti Kaye, a beautiful beach side restaurant and boutique hotel.  The diving sucks and the fish are too small to fry.  Otherwise life remains great. 

We are in Marigot Bay just south of the capital of St Lucia waiting to pick up Debbie and Ben who flew to Martinique.  We took a hike up to the headland above the bay and took this photo. After our third outboard motor mechanic we think it is working properly.  I was about to buy a new one and MAKK had totally given up on the one we have.

We are anchored in a most spectacular place between two huge pitons.  The town is in an ancient collapsed volcano several miles wide. The pitons are pushed up by hot magma but did not erupt to the  earths surface.  There is a bubbling sulphur spring in part of the volcano. The name "Soufriere" in French is "sulphur air".   We managed to catch a 4 1/2 foot dolphin fish that will keep our freezer full for a while. View from Ladera Restaurant where we had lunch The Pitons as we entered  the area of Soufriere The harbor of Soufriere as we approached Sulphur springs 3 1/2 foot fish caught crossing from St. Vincent to St. Lucia

These are the private garden of a 60ish German man who settled in St. Vincent.  The garden is at the center of an ancient dormant volcano that created a valley facing east. The valley catches the eastern winds with its abundant moisture. The gardens blew us away.

Plan to stay on our mooring in the cut for a few days.  It is lovely here and there are ventures to the mainland that we are about to embark upon.  This morning we scaled Fort Duvenette.  It was built in the late 18th century when the settlers were fighting the Black Caribs inland and the French out at sea.  It was recently rebuilt with a grant from Finland.  It has 250 steps to the top.  It appears that George Jackson visited in 1969 and left his inscription defacing the historic property.  See pic. Young Island Cut from our mooring Fort Duvenette My dingy trying to mate Ft. Duvenette French canons

St. Vincent:   Left Bequia today and arrived in the southern most harbor in the big island of St. Vincent.  We having Pina Coladas at the Young Island Resort and have our boat on a mooring just off their beach.  We will go exploring the mainland tomorrow.  More to come. Young Island Resort, St. Vincent Bequia, Admiralty Harbor Sold the Achilles Dingy, got a new one

Whaleboner Bar,  Bequia Island: The bar is a whale bone and the stools are whale  vertebrae.   Bequia Island, South of St. Vincent Island.  Here we are in a nice, colorful, quaint harbor.  Lots of tiny shops, restaurants, local vegetable markets and marine stores.  I will be getting my " chaps" made to protect my new dingy from the sun here so we will be here a couple of days. Yesterday we anchored in Friendship Bay south of the main town in a small protected harbor.  This morning we motored past Moonhole:  an abandoned hippy community founded by the late architect, Tom Johnson.  The original was built under a natural arch called Moonhole. It was abandoned when a large bolder fell into an unoccupied bed.  The other houses grow out of the rocks without straight lines or right angles. The original Moonhole Friendship Bay Anchorage entrance  Deb: my new help master More of Moonhole village Moonhole villa...