Cool beans – I just saw that some of my trips which I’ve been unable to download from my GPS system on the chart plotter, are visible at marinetraffic.com, for instance part of the trip two days ago from Dominica to the Saintes.
I enjoyed a respite today, taking a long walk ashore around the town of Deshaies and finally getting, completing and mailing some postcards that I’d promised to send back to Germany; I realized that the last time I’d actually used postcards were in my college days before the advent of e-mails and cellular phones, when one could still use Western Union to send instant messages instead of just sending instant cash.
I wanted to do my shopping, but had forgotten that everything shuts down for lunch, and at 15:30 I went ashore to find everything still buttoned up tight, but I returned after 16:00 and purchased some of the local beer, Corsaire, for later consumption and looked at the restaurants ashore for dinner. A couple had very nice menus indeed, but later on that evening when I went ashore to eat I found that they were, almost without exception, closed that night. Luckily the one place that I’d chosen was open and I had a great meal accompanied by two glasses of German beer – Bitburger.
The sunset tonight was very impressive, due to all the high and medium-level clouds in the skies everything turned a wonderful golden in the 10 minutes close to sunset and I couldn’t help but take many pictures and since I got so many I had to post some of them to this page as well.
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