We had a great sail from Dominica to Deshaies in Guadeloupe. We sailed with Golightly in near perfect conditions. Stephen has been telling me that our sailing as we go further south will be "champagne sailing". To me that means I can sit on the deck, sipping champagne and this hadn't happened up until this point! This time, however, I was able to sprawl myself out on the trampoline and read my book on a beautiful flat blue sea for much of the way....the only problem being we had no champagne, it's far too expensive in these parts!
Deshaies is a sleepy little French village and Customs and Immigration are so relaxed that we weren't able to clear in or out, and we stayed for 4 nights. We arrived on a Sunday, so flew our quarantine flag until Monday. The clearing is done in a little curio shop on the waters edge on the computer, not an official in sight. We went there on Monday and the shop was closed, so we went on Tuesday and were told that the lady who works wasn't there because she got married so we couldn't clear in. We were leaving on Thursday so didn't bother for one day, we wish all the places we visit could be like this!
We spent a great the few days with Les and Jeramie, braaing on our boat, having 'heavy entree's' on Golightly and provisioning with the delicious cheeses, wines and pates as can only be done on a the French Islands. We were also lucky enough to have another chance to swim with the dolphins! We are convinced that Tayne is a Dolphin Whisperer........just as we were about to start doing Afrikaans they arrived and then he got the day off school to swim with them. This is exactly what happened the previous time in the same bay, he reckons he has a 'connection' and this is a sign that he shouldn't be doing Afrikaans at all! :)
We love this little village but had to leave as high winds were predicted and we had to meet Pat and David in Antigua in a few days.
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