Day 13 Wednesday April 27, 2005 Corn Store Bay, Ronde Island
We’re up early after being serenaded by the town dogs all night. By 8 AM we’re in town arranging a flight back to St. Lucia. There is a jazz festival going on there the coming weekend and the best flights we can get are via Barbados with an overnight stay. That means three days of traveling to get back home, not so good. The flight is cheap though, just 275 EC each. I don’t pay yet because in my heart I have a secret desire to sail back to St. Lucia. That’s how it should be done!
Next we go for a walk in town and we end up in the market. The ladies are wonderful and we buy spice bags and spice necklaces as gifts for our friends. Soon we’re back on the boat. What to do next? Provisioning, so we dinghy over to the supermarket and buy food for the next two days. Bill asks that I give him 5 EC for the boy pushing the buggy of groceries across the road and over to the dinghy wharf. When I get to the wharf Bill is saying something about having bought lufa’s and not having 5 EC so I jurry back and give the lufa guy 5 EC which he is very grateful for. It turns out that Bill had already paid him and I was supposed to pay the grocery boy! No wonder the lufa man was smiling.
By 10 AM we’re heading out of the bay discussing whether to turn north or south. Lynn’s head is spinning as we discuss all the possibilities. We decide to head north and try for St. Lucia. We have three days to get there and catch our flight. I’m hoping to make Carricaou today but the winds are light and right on our nose so progress is slow. After tacking way out to sea and coming back in Bill decides to motor a while in the lee of the island. Once we’re past Granada we hoist sail and tack back and forth, slowly gaining. It’s about a 3:1 ratio. For every three miles we sail we make good 1. By our calculations it will take over 40 hours to get to St. Lucia. It’s possible but who wants to spend all that time sailing.
We decide to stop at Corn Store bay at Ronde Island, the spot we’d stopped two days ago and spend the night here.
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| Ronde Island | Corn Store Bay | Fishermen | Storm at Sea | The Two Sisters |