LinoCat

LinoCat is now back on anchor. So much cooler and more breeze flowing through the boat. Waiting and watching a sunset in the bay is great since nothing obstructs your view. Today Ralf and myself looked into our electrical issues and it looks like at least one might be solved. I will update you later about this!

So we safely arrived back in St Lucia. It was nice that the wind eased down a bit and so we had a fast sail between the islands and weak wind with some motoring on the lee side of the islands. It was time for a haircut since i felt like a rastaman with my "long" hair. That feels much more caribbean! Lani wanted to have her toe nails painted :-) In St Lucia many cruise ships just left for Barbados in the evening. Another nice sunset

En route to St Lucia we had the big Rapalla Lure out. It is roughly 20cm long and ment for big fish. In front of St Vincent we had a bite at around 7knots and a lot of line got pulled out. It must have been a Barracuda with around 60-80cm length. Well, we only reeled the head in since a much bigger one has bitten off the rest of our nice Barracuda. DAMNED! EDIT: According to the teeth it was rather a Wahoo head than a Barracuda head :-)

We took our Genoa down and took it to the local sailmaker. Grenadines Sails did a good job for a very reasonable price. If you ever have some sailstuff to do i can recommend him. For 2 patches on the UV cover and some restitching we paid 85EC Dollar, around 22 EUR. And the date was kept as promised. You can contact them under gsails at vincysurf.com and Avell Davis is the guy to speak to.

We called Gideons Taxi service on VHF 68 and ordered a Taxi for 7 people from 10 to 12. Liz, John and Joanna from Jalan-Jalan joined us and we went to Mt Pleasant, the highest point of the island and to an old Fort and also to a turtle sanctuary. This is admirality bay where we also anchored. This is the open Jeep we had as a taxi. Due to the wind it was very pleasant to drive. View over the atlantic side.

Here you can see the island Baradel in the Tobago Cays. The small beach is part of a turtle protection area where you can watch turtles. You can go there by Dinghy but only slowly directly to the beach. Most of the time we directly snorkeled there from the boat. In the back you see the horseshoe reef which protects this anchorage. The kite was approx. 100-150m high. A a nice seastar right under LinoCat. Turtle eating sea gras. Another one swimming by. Race with a turtle :-)

We are on the Tobago Cays among Turtles and crystal clear water. But no WiFi coverage so only some text and the pictures will follow later.