Down island starts.  Moving south for Hurricane season.

Saba – a huge rock that can be seen from Saint Marten its a divers paradise, but we’ve just have never been.

Its pronouced sAaaaaba, not SahBa like the one in the BVI.  Also one of the places the weather has to be just right to visit comfortably.  We had that weather so we went.

Left SXM with full sails and rocketed over to Saba, a mere 20 miles away – found a Wahoo along the way.

Arranged for a taxi after clearing customs to show us the island, a town at the bottom called “Bottom” where the government offices are and another town called “Windward side” where the rest of the folks live.  Kevin gave us a great tour, and we scheduled him for the next day too.

We hiked to the top of that gnarly rock.

The top is covered in clouds, it rains, its wet, its slippery .. but nothing a good set of flip-flops can’t handle.   And Christine needed her steps on her fitbit after all.

We made it to the top and back down safely, but since its in the clouds there wasn’t a view as reward at the top.  The only reward was at the “windward side” grocery store that sold cold beers.  And an awesome bakery for breakfast after the hike.