Category: Eastern Caribbean

We’re now anchored just outside of Jolly Harbour and may well remain in the vicinity for the next few days – until the family leave. This allows us to sort out some things together which would otherwise be difficult being so far apart.

Not that we won’t continue to be in vacation mode. Tomorrow we expect to go for a hike. Approx 3-4 miles away from here are the Megaliths of Greencastle Hill. These are rocks which are debatably either interestingly natural or some archaeological artifact. From there we may walk all the way to St Johns so we can see it during a weekday and maybe visit the Museum. If we do walk all the way there, we’ll certainly return by local bus.

I’ve also learned to use geo locations in blogs, including those sent via SSB. This means many of my posts will now be embelished with a little google map showing where we are exactly. The thing I now need to do is to make grabbing the GPS coords simpler than it is right now. Another task for another day.

Tonight we’re back in Five Islands Bay in fact off a little internal bay called Hermitage Bay. It’s got a pretty secluded resort ashore and that’s about it. We’ve been ashore and walked the beach. Ben and Jess stayed a little longer. Here are some recent pics of Dickenson Bay, Deep Bay & St Johns.

Saturday night we spent a nice quiet evening in Deep Bay. In the morning we shifted Dignity close to the wreck of the Andes to see if it was feasible to Hookah dive. We did not even drop the anchor as
the winds were whipping through that part of the bay and it did not look feasible to dive there. We therefore went around the corner and anchored right in St Johns. On a Sunday, St Johns was pretty dead. We walked around town anyway. There was an interesting cathedral, stone on the outside with pitch pine and mahogany on the inside. It had two towers like Exeter Cathedral albeit a bit smaller. We found an open supermarket where we mainly stocked up on bread, fruit and chocolate treats (mine was a Crunchie).

We then had another planning session. A key need was to get on the internet Monday to deal with some banking issues.  So we ended up back off Dickenson Bay for Sunday evening as we knew we could get connections there. The kids went ashore for a couple of hours leaving Helen and I alone on the boat. We watched a movie.

Our plan, as of yesterday, was to head to the reefs NE of Antigua. Now it looks as though the winds are picking up so we may change our minds (again) and head west. We may end up hanging around Five Islands Harbour and Jolly Harbour and look to take bus trips inland. If we have time today we
might go back to St Johns but that is not high on our wishlist.

Right now we’re having a familiar fight with the internet. Performance is really slow again. Haven’t yet found a way to really tell where the problem is. In the same location it was not too bad last night.

We changed our minds. Dickenson Bay was too touristy for us so we shifted about 3nm to the SW to Deep Bay for the night. Much more secluded and a fort to visit. Out in the bay is a wreck which we can snorkel or Hookah on tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon we intend to head to St Johns, the capital, where we’ll stay for a couple of nights and hopefully sort out everything we need to.