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It’s hard to describe how amazing it is as I am writing this. Words like epic, and spiritual come to mind. Let me see if I can paint the scene for you, the sight, the movement and sounds of a sailboat traveling at night. We are twenty miles offshore, heading towards antigua. It’s just gone […]
Read more about : Guadeloupe to Antigua Passage
Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Portsmouth. As we turn back north, roughly half way through our year in the Caribbean, four cities with the same name come to mind. I was born in Portsmouth, England, on the south coast. It’s a big navy city, and growing up there firmly embedded the coast and sea into me. I […]
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Fort Napoleon is on top of a hill overlooking the harbor of Terre de Haut in Les Saintes. It is one of three forts forming a triangle around the bay. It was originally named Fort Louis, but this was taken by the British and destroyed. The British abandoned if and the French re-occupied it again, […]
Read more about : Fort Napoleon, Les Saintes – Sailingkids Review
This morning, Simon and I hiked up Le Chameau, the highest point on the island of Terre-de-Haut, Les Saintes, while Barrie and the other two boys visited Fort Napoleon. “Chameau” is French for camel, so this little island mountain makes me think of Camel’s Hump, perhaps the best known peak in our home state of […]
Read more about : Exploring Les Saintes: Le Chameau (or the Caribbean Camel’s Hump)
Now we have a good connection, here is a video we made en route from Saba to St Kitts.
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