Up at dawn, watched the sunrise over the St. Lucia for the first time on an Anchor. The amount of boats in the bay was 10x that had anchor lights on last night when we chose our anchor spot. Probably a hundred or so boats anchored out side of Rodney Bay, right in front of a Sandals resort.

Fired up the engines and rolled toward the marina, tried to hail the marina on the VHF but no luck, till we almost got all the way in. They put us next to a 70 foot ketch, with a slight cross wind, but we stuck the landing and with help from the dock hands tied up with out a scratch or loud words.

Clearing customs only took 1.5 hours, and boy that building must be built out of noodles cause it sure was moving all over the place, had to lean up against the wall to stand still. The sea legs kept wanting to twitch and catch my balance. Of course a trip to the market after customs is my MO to get a beer, sure it was 9am, but was necessary after that.

Next task was to organize the air fare and make sure eveyone could get out on time, and Christine worked her magic and found a flight out that afternoon for Marvin so that he could be home for is birthday on Friday.

The rest of the day was spent lounging and drinking in the sun and talking to other boaters and absolutely no talking about our trip. Lots of beers and drinks, with a cheeseburger in paradise at the local cafe.

We don’t have the correct plugs to plug in the electricity so that might be on the agenda today to get an adapter or shore cable for the USA type plugs everything we have is for 220/50 hz.

We are safely near land, Ron leaves on Friday, we are currently scheduled to leave on Monday. Since we were late getting here, the haul out date was missed and now they can’t get us out till some later date. So that might put a wrench in the plans.

Its beautiful here!