Martinique

Dave's brother and sister in law joined us in Dominica.

We set off the next morning for the sail to Martinique. The forecast looked good but unfortunately halfway across the wind direction changed and we had to motor sail in fairly lumpy seas, Isla crashed out!

Just before a squall hit us (high winds) the starboard engine failed, which means no steering on one side. Then the port engine depowered, lucky Antony kept us all calm and we managed to limp into St.Pierre, an anchorage at the north of Martinique. Dave and Antony dived under the boat to see what the problem was to find that the propellor was gone. Isla said 'can't we go and find it?', to which Dave replied 'only if you want to swim on the sea bed between here and Dominca!!' We decided to try and forget about the engine problems while Antony and Marcia are with us and sort them out when they leave. Callum and Caz you won't believe this but both girls are now diving, remember the hours you spent trying to encourage them when you were here!

We have found a few bays with amazing bright corals and we got Marcia, who said she didn't really like snorkelling last week, to free dive!

We have been perfecting our Pina Colada's with Antony and Marcia and thought we'd sussed it until we went out and had one served in a Pineapple! Even Darcy and Isla are getting a taste for them.