Union Island to St. Lucia

We arrived in Grenada from Florida in late March to prepare Wildcat for relaunching. We left Grenada on the 6th of April to head north to meet friends in St. Lucia. This is view of Clifton Harbour on Union Island looking over the protesting reef.
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From Union Island we went to Bequia, also part of the Grenadines. While we were there, the Bequians were celebrating Easter with boat races and music and food. Here is a local sloop racing among the moored cruising fleet.


After five days in Bequia, we left for St. Lucia around 2:30 AM for the 62 mile trip arriving around 1PM in Marigot Bay.


St. Lucia is a mountainous islands with a sulfur spring and two imposing pitons that plunge into the water at the south end of the island providing a spectacular anchorage.









Wildcat moored off the Petit Piton (2460 feet high) with water depths in th hundreds of feet less than a quarter of a mile offshore.



















Gros Piton (2619 feet) in the early morning.











Nearby is the National Botanical Garden.

Rainbow Falls stained with the minerals bubbling out of Sulfur Springs.
























Steam venting at Sulfur Springs.















Bat Caves (vertical slits in cliff face) near Soufriere.


















Petit Piton from Dasheen's



















Looking north over the town of Soufriere, the Pitons and Sulfur Springs (steam venting on the left side of the photo). The presence of many French names is a legacy of the multiple occupations of St. Lucia which changed hands 14 times over a period of 150 years.