Despite all the
festivities and late-night return to Mowzer last night, we were still
up and on our way early this morning. One stop on the way put us in
at Marigot for more dinghy fuel and one last stop at the Sarafina's
for those incredible pain chocolates. Winds are still incredibly
light and the seas pretty much flat so we motored to Saba although
the winds did pick up to about 10 knots once we cleared away from St.
Martin so we were able to give a little lift to our fuel-efficiency
with some wind-power. As I said to Henry at one point, at least we
look like a sail-boat!
Saba is the tip of an
ancient volcano that rises from the ocean south-west of St. Martin.
We could also see St. Eustacia a bit further south and as we
progressed, also St. Kitts, with St. Bart's ever-present to the east.
In the lee of the island we lost the winds but coming around to Fort
Bay on the south side was quite windy and rolly. Even though the
wind hadn't seemed that high, there was probabaly some acceleration
of the wind around the steep sides of the island. There are no
beaches, no palm-trees, no beach-bars and definitely no resorts.
What Saba offers is an unspoiled beauty, amazing hiking with
panoramic views and quaint little villages that look like the houses
were dropped in place a hundred years ago (which many of them
probably were.) We checked in at customs, immigration and the marine
park services, paid $12.00 to stay on a mooring ball for the next few
nights and then moved Mowzer back round to the west side of the
island in Wells Bay to escape some of the wind and wave action.
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| West Coast of Saba - Wells Bay and Ladder Bay (tiny little indents on the coast) |
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| Fort Bay and the only loading dock on the island. |
Tomorrow we plan to do
some hiking, visit The Bottom and Windwardside and then depending on
the weather and what we want to do on the island, we can choose to
stay into the weekend if we wish.
