Here is a brief overview of our itinerary.      Here is Sharon entire story.

3/9/09  Arrived Fort de France. Hotel looked closed and we had some trouble getting in. You slept with the windows open (no screens). There was a rally going on so it was quite noisy. Not exactly five star, but reasonably clean and definitely centrally located. No restaurants open. We managed to get a chicken sandwich from a street vendor.

 3/10/09 Went aboard Dignity and met Helen and Steve, sailed to Petit D’Arlet Bay. Snorkeling not very interesting.

 3/11/09  Moved to Ste Anne. Shops around town were closed until 3:30 pm. We saw many people beautifully dressed in black and white who gathered on the main square for a funeral in the church.

 3/12/09  Snorkeled at a buoy across the bay. Moved to an anchorage at Marin.

 3/13/09 Sailed 26 miles across to the Island of St Lucia. We spent the night in the Marina at Rodney Bay. They make you back into the slip. We needed help from shore tying to the dock because you are about 4 ft above the dock. 

 3/14/09 Stayed in Rodney bay, but anchored out in the bay. There was a lot of current in the good area for snorkeling and some cloudiness to the water maybe because they were dredging the channel to the marina.

 3/15/09 Moved to Soufriere. At one side of the bay are two peaks which are the most distinguishing characteristic of the area. They must be volcanic cones and they are right at water’s edge. We were moored here. Good snorkeling under the boat. The mooring balls were a bit close together and we got VERY close to several other boats as we swung at different intervals.

 3/16/09 Moved to other side of bay. We hiked up to a botanical garden/mineral spa/waterfall. Had an inexpensive barbeque lunch in Soufriere. Snorkeled under the boat in the afternoon.

 3/17/09 Sailed from St Lucia back to Martinique to St Pierre. Several squalls. I had to wake Steve to take the helm, because the conditions exceeded my capabilities and I did not want to be the cause of any damage.  

3/18/09 Spent the day exploring St Pierre. Moved in the afternoon to Case Pilote, a fishing village nearer Ft de France.

 3/19/09 Sailed past Fort de France to anchor at Anse Matin.  There was a large failed resort near the point and smaller hotels nearer the town.

 3/20/09 Sailed back to Fort de France so that we could arrange for a taxi to pick us up early the next morning. The stores were open, so we spent several hours wandering the streets.

 3/21/09 Fly back to LA  via Puerto Rico.