Still in Deshaies

We are having a great time in this anchorage. We are in a lovely spot close to rock cut wall and the winds have been very light the past few days. Though they are more pleasant to live with we need to run the generator more often to supplement our power. The fridge is an energy hog and we like ice cubes. So we try to run it a couple hours in the evening and watch a movie at the same time.... Thanks Bet for the great selection of movies. It hasn't even rained much in the last week so very pleasant indeed. Fuel has been a problem to obtain since there is some kind of dispute going on. Not getting much local French news ( like we could understand it!) we are not sure what the situation was but stations were closed or pumps were dry. We did get both gasoline and diesel earlier this week. 

View from the stern this morning of the rock wall. 

We tried to rent a car with Barry and Ann (no e) from Cats Paw IV but nothing available for a week or more. So we checked into the buses and took a big highway bus into Pointe a Petrie. It was a two hour bus ride with many stops ( the express!?) and a very crowded scene. A verbal fight broke out about half way along and two people were just screaming at each other. She was in the seat ahead of us and just wild! We had no idea what the whole thing was about and people around us were laughing at them so it must have been pretty serious. The city itself was quite a sad sight. It was very run down, dirty .....littered with garbage and broken bottles every where. We walked along the water front for quite a way but it was fenced off to such a point we couldn't even get to the water. There were a lot of market places and that is always a colourful scene. One booth was selling down filled vests ..... go figure in this heat. We walked to the marina which was a busy clean place and a lovely lunch and walked back and got the earlier bus back. It was not as crowded and took only one hour. All this fun for only 4€. each way. 

Today we plan to go to town check out of the country after which we have 48 hours to leave. We will go back to the Pigeon Island anchorage that had the great snorkelling and have another hour or so there, a little shop in the Leader Price for stock up of cheeses and maybe another box or two of wine. Then Wed am we plan to make a bee line to Dominica. It is a 50 mile sail with two open passages between the islands. Unfortunately our weather guy was off the air this AM for some reason. We will rely on our own findings on the web to make our final decision to go. It is wonderful we have Internet on Brian's phone wherever we are for about 50 EC per month. In the French islands it eats up the time and dollars quicker but still worth it. 

That is our boat in the distance from shore and a view of the bay. Taken from the dock at a restaurant called Hemmingway's from which we heard wonderful jazz music all Sunday afternoon. We'll have to return to try their menu. 

There are lots of reasons to return to Guadeloupe and perhaps some of you could meet us here.