After an extensive breakfast of bacon, eggs & bread we took our time getting underway and only approached Gustavia, St. Barths main (and only) town around noon and soon found ourselves in the midst of sleek fast racing boats, as we’d unknowingly arrived in the midst of Les Voiles de St. Barths, the island’s well-known regatta. We motored around the very crowded anchorage for a while looking for a good anchoring spot to no avail, and I finally gave up and decided to head back to Anse Colombier to see if we could find a spot there. We were fortunate to find not only one, but two inner moorings free but the inside one was too close to the rocks ashore for my taste and we opted for the out mooring, which Sascha picked up like a seasoned pro and we thereby deprived all of our neighbors of the “Ankerkino” that they wanted to witness. We, on the other hand, were later given a couple of free entertainment as other boats attempted unsuccessfully or with some effort to pick up their respective moorings.
Our water toys were soon deployed (that effort consisting mainly of Sascha pumping up the inflatable paddle-board) while we watched the large yacht Spirit using a significant amount of their crew to inflate and otherwise set up a large slide on their port side. They had to work a long time at it and the entertainment included one crew member taking an involuntary water temperature test. The snorkeling along the shore was nice today and we all spent an afternoon aboard in the calm anchorage spot that we’d gotten. Late in the afternoon saw us heading ashore for a short walk along the cliff side path before we returned to Zanshin to celebrate a sun downer before preparing our dinner of T-Bone steaks (I’d purchased some frozen ones in the BVI in a sealed box and was somewhat disappointed at how thin they were cut, but otherwise the meat quality was good), garlic bread and baked potatoes.
Some fish feeding, star gazing and red wine drinking rounded off the day and all of us headed to bed between 22:00 and 23:00. Alyssa didn’t like the boat motion below, so she opted to spend the night up on deck with pillow and sheets rather than inside in her bed.
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