St. Lucia (with a side trip to Ireland)
Tuesday 8 th March (International Women's Day), Rodney Bay, St. Lucia. Anchored in Rodney Bay at the northwest tip of St. Lucia, a lovely big shallow anchorage just perfect for storing a fleet of ships which is exactly what the British did in the late 18 th century. Then they climbed a hill on Pigeon Island and built a fort from where they could keep an eye on their French enemies just across the channel in Martinique. As Caribbean islands tended to, do this one got batted back and forth between the British and French before eventually ending up British. And now independent. View of Rodney Bay from Fort Rodney Spot Gráinne at anchor Photographer Karl explores the fort We're just coming to the end of our time in St. Lucia and plan to sail up to Martinique in the next couple of days to start a period of indulgence in French cheese and wine. We've had a pretty low key sort of time here, taking the opportunity to take a trip back to Ireland and to get some work done on the b...