Considering our sleeping arrangement from
yesterday’s disaster, we had a pretty good sleep. The simple fact that there was no additional trauma made it a
good night but we actually slept pretty good as well. Maybe it was the exhaustion of hiking/swimming or maybe it was
too much booze, in either case, we woke refreshed and ready to start a new day!
Priorities first … of course, we had to
snorkel again … and it was just as amazing as yesterday. We really like this place! If it weren’t for hurricane season, we would
definitely spend more time in this area.
A picture is worth a thousand words so check out our photo page …
instead of my trying to describe the awesomeness of it all!
Back on Soulmatie, we knew we needed to head
back to Borge de Saintes to clear out of customs. We headed over late morning.
Our guidebook says Customs is open from 2pm … after closing for lunch of
course! We got ashore about 1:30 and
waited. 2pm came and went and no
customs people. Guess they were taking
a long siesta!
We decided to walk to one of the local
grocery stores while we waited. Oops,
it’s closed too! We just can’t get used
to this ‘island time’. We were walking
town and stumbled across John and Nancy from Silver Seas (we’d met them our
first day in the Saints). We had
figured they’d be long gone from this place.
Their plans were to boot past Dominica, Martinique and head straight for
St. Lucia. It turned out, they went
around the bay to get fuel (here in the saints) and had starter problems with
their motor. While we were having an
awesome time snorkeling the past couple of days away, they were desperately
trying to find someone who could fix their starter. Luckily, Nancy speaks French because she was able to communicate
enough to find someone. They hope to
get it installed and working and head out tomorrow or Saturday.
The customs office finally opened. Too bad all nations weren’t like this. We paid nothing to clear in and only $1EU to
clear out. Now that’s in our budget!
Our plan is to head out tomorrow for Dominica!
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