Barbuda is the little sister island of Antigua and could not be more different. The beach paradise, at first glance pristine and barely built up, gradually turned out to be the new playground of the super rich. With them came excavators, fences, and lots of “Private Property” signs….
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Coming from Guadeloupe we have an easy crossing to Antigua. We drop anchor in Jolly Harbour and circumnavigate the island with stops in Falmouth Bay and Green Island in a good two weeks.
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A small, at first glance inconspicuous, island in the Caribbean away from charter tourism catches our attention: Montserrat. Two natural disasters have struck the island in the past 30 years, and now almost two-thirds of the entire island is off-limits.
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Our route does not take us directly to Guadeloupe, we first land in Les Saintes and soon sail via Marie Galante to the main island. Here are the highlights of our discoveries.
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«Ten, nine, eight…..one! Happy New Year! Welcome 2023!»
A new year, a new life, a new island. We celebrate the turn of the year on SV Take 5 of Suzi and Emmanuel, together with our Dutch-Indian friends.
We dive for five days from our dinghy in the Réserve Cousteau on the west coast of Guadeloupe. Here are the highlights of our discoveries.
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Finally, the real Caribbean again! That’s my first thought as we drop anchor in Prince Rupert Bay in the northwest of Dominica. We are immediately greeted by local fishermen offering buoys, fish, vegetables and everything else.
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Dominica has enchanted us with unique natural diversity. See here what our favorite island so far has to offer.
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Dominica also has a lot to offer underwater, as the waters are mostly protected and dynamite fishing is a foreign word here.
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Martinique surprises us. Not because the island offers special nature experiences or a particularly interesting history, but because it is a kind of mini-Southern France in the Caribbean. Already on the first evening, after we wearily anchored in Sainte Anne on November 25 and cleaned up the boat, we make a short shore leave. Behind the dinghy dock of Sainte Anne is a small park, behind it a church, in between a post office, a few restaurants and a Carrefour Express.
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