Caribbean
In this category all our blog posts from sailing in the Caribbean can be found. We spent four months sailing in the Caribbean and it was a truly wonderful time. Everything from island hopping in the Grenadines, jungle adventures in Dominica, colonial history and fancy boats in Antigua, the most amazing beaches in Barbuda and tourist and airplanes in Sint Maarten.
St Vincent & the grenadines |
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Dominica |
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Antigua & Barbuda |
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statia, Sint Maarten & St Barths |
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A visit to St Barths and final preparations
April 23-30, 2021 One day in Sint Maarten we decided to take the ferry to the previous Swedish colony St Barths. Now it belongs to France, but it was Swedish for a time during 17th and 18th century. We took the ferry in the morning and since we had been in Sint Maarten for 4 days of more we didn’t have to do any testing or quarantine. We arrived to fancy Gustavia and took a walk around. A lot of famous, rich people have houses in the island and the town is filled with fancy stores. After a nice day in St Barths we took the ferry back to Sint…
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Diving in Statia and off to Sint Maarten
April 13-23, 2021 When we finally managed to leave Antigua after the trouble getting checked out of the country (see pervious post) we set off towards Statia (St Eustatius) where we were gonna do a couple of dives. Due to Covid-19 we were not allowed to go ashore in Statia but we could do a quarantine dive. With this we were not allowed to leave the boat and we took our own dinghies to the diving sites instead of going with the diving boat. We had hand sanitizer with us to clean the equipment we used and so on. It actually worked really well and nice to support the diving…
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Finding caves in Antigua
April 3-April 13, 2021 After almost two weeks at Barbuda we left and headed back to Antigua. Our plan at that time was to spend a couple of more days in Antigua and then sail to Guadelope. But France closed their borders, which meant so did Guadelope (which is a part of France). We still planned to stay a few more days in Antigua but now we had to find another island to sail to before we should start our crossing back to Europe. But more on that later. When arriving to Antigua once more we sailed back to Jolly Harbor and stayed in the marina over the Easter holidays.…
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Hurricane damage hotel, Frigate Birds and sink hole
March 30-April 3, 2021 After a quite long time at the southern part of Barbuda we sailed up to Low bay, a bit up along the west coast. The beach on the west coast was once the 17 mile beach but after the hurricane Irma the part of the beach disappeared and opened up an entrance into the Codrington lagoon. At the bach there used the be a hotel that was now very much destroyed after the hurricane. One day we took a guided tour to the Frigate Bird Sanctuary, which was really cool. Being at the sanctuary felt like being in a Planet Earth episode. The birds are very…
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Off to the island with the most spectacular beaches!
March 19-26, 2021 After one night in the marina we set sail up towards Barbuda, which we heard so much good about. It was quite a close-hauled sail up but otherwise a fine sail. We arrived to Cocoa point at Barbuda one hour before sunset and got our first view of the magical beach at Cocoa point, on top of the beautiful beach we also saw a couple of horses walking in the water at sunset. At Barbuda both horses and donkeys roam freely and during our stay at Barbuda we saw several of them. After a few days at Cocoa Point we continued to a new anchorage at Barbuda,…
