Looking down from the top of the hill into the Gustavia harbour in St. Barths. We'd walked all the way to see the fort, but it has been turned into a police station and was closed to the public. [17°53'47.56"N 62°51'11.03"W (facing NE)]Looking down at Gustavia I'm sitting in a Café having a Mille-feuille and a good coffee as I write this, luckily they let me use a power plug as my Sony notebook's battery is dead; unfortunately there is no Wi-Fi access here but I'll catch up on my posts when I get to St. Martin as the Iridium phone is incredibly slow; I had about 250Kb of incoming mails and responded with 2 short 1-liners and it took almost an hour! I am really dissatisfied with Iridium for data connections.
I motored from Gustavia to the anchorage of Colombier just around the bend, as it was too short a distance to warrant raising the sails and I needed to charge my batteries in any case. I made one quick attempt at picking up a mooring, but they have no pennant so I went straight to anchoring and spent the day doing minor cleaning work in the shade of the bimini and finally took a picture of the life raft for these pages. The wind picked up towards dusk so my plan of firing up the barbecue and making a steak will have to postponed until tomorrow. I have some frankfurters left for tonight.
SV-Zanshin
