Dutch Caribbean (Statia, Sint Maarten, Curaçao)
Thursday 26 th May, Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten. Good old Simpson Bay We're back in good old Sint Maarten after quite the dash to manage to visit all the islands on the way after our longer than expected stay on Martinique. It's lovely to be back almost exactly a year since we left to head south to Grenada. It's the first time since leaving Carriacou in December that we've come into somewhere familiar instead of a brand new island, brand new country and brand new anchorage. Adventuring is all well and good but there was a lovely pleasure in knowing exactly where we wanted to anchor, exactly where to go to check in, exactly where we could dump our rubbish/buy our fuel/find a good supermarket and exactly where to find the best sunset rum punches. Karl held out a full 24 hours before succumbing to the lure of the Golden Arches for a Big Mac and we held out a couple of hours more before succumbing to the twin dangers of the crew of Christina Too and the Yacht Club rum punc...