Heading North

On the 27th we started heading North.  Hurricane season has just about ended and luckily it was a very quiet one in the Caribbean this year.  Before we left St. Vincent I wanted to visit a couple of spots that we hadn't been to yet.  We stopped in Wallilabou which has a fairly deep bay so we had to get a mooring ball and then one of the boat boys came out and tied the stern to the pylons on the dock.  Wallilabou became a popular spot because in 2003 they filmed part of Pirates of the Caribbean here and there are still quite a few props that were left from the shooting.  The restaurant was there prior to filming and they built around it the building where Elizabeth's father worked.  They built the dock where the ships would leave from and the courtyard still had the hanging rope where they tried to hang Jack Sparrow.  There were a lot of the wooden caskets all over the place which were the ones that they would throw overboard.
Then we headed up to Chateaubelair for one night and on the 29th we sailed up to St. Lucia.  We checked into Soufriere which is on the SW end of the island.  We already had the pet permit approved from the vet there so we thought it would be fairly easy to get the dogs checked in.  But the vet couldn't come out to check them until the next morning so the poor dogs were quarantined to the boat again for 24 hours.  They seem to be getting use to it though.  Soufriere is right at the base of the Pitons which are two fairly steep hills.  After we took the dogs in for a walk we decided to head up to Rodney Bay which is on the north end of the island.  They have a very nice marina there and its pretty reasonable so we decided to stay there a few days.  It's nice because you can dinghy to a huge shopping area with tons of restaurants, grocery stores and a casino.
It feels good to start heading north and getting out of the Grenadines.  Don't get me wrong, the Grenadines are beautiful but after three months you pretty much have seen everything and then some.

St Vincent:

Lexie was looking in the crab holes again-can you tell?

 

 

The Pitons on St. Lucia