Rodney Bay Inner Lagoon, St Lucia

Today has been fairly busy with Kevin collecting the camping gas first thing. We only need water now before we can head off south but we still have a couple of favours left to give. Firstly Kevin helped Mike to fit his new prop which had just arrived and was quite a long job as we needed to fill both cylinders first. Mike had done his PADI Open Water Diver some years before and was just going to borrow the kit but Kevin offered to lend a hand. I think Mike was very pleased in the end as the murky marina water was no problem to Kevin as a UK diver but is pretty disconcerting to a fairly new diver especially with a fairly complicated job to do. They agreed Mike would pass the tools and Kevin do the fitting and Mike could do a final inspection to check he was happy. Mike's new volunteer crew for his trip to Antigua to collect Jean from a trip home for a family Christmas also arrived. The new crew members included two young French chefs who set straight to work providing food for the workers much to Mike and Kevin’s delight throwing an excellent lunch together quickly with the contents of Mike’s cupboards. The prop fitting went really well and Kevin came back to the boat on Mike’s tender to put away the gear.


Mike & Kevin head off for the diving job

I had been busy all day updating the blog and doing various internet jobs, so hadn’t managed to get over to Pikorua to do my favour of music swaps on iPods, which will now have to wait until tomorrow. Spud (Jonathan) and Jen of Pikorua just stopped by on their way past on their tender and stopped for a beer. So as per usual in the Caribbean, work always seems to take longer than planned! We have a bit of exploration planned tonight in Rodney Bay village, a two minute tender ride for us from our current mooring as we had been looking at it from the anchorage but never managed to make it to the lovely beach, so this afternoon we have resolved to take a walk along it. I promise to take the camera as I realise photos are a bit lacking this week. Tomorrow, we will be taking on water and then Monday morning we set off to Bequia! We cannot wait to get out on the water again and finally get cruising. We’d certainly not planned to spend so long in Rodney Bay and will think twice about sending anything by post again, but we have had a great time here and I think we will miss the nightly social scene when we move on to the quieter anchorages.


View of the Inner Lagoon


View of the Inner Lagoon