Our past few days...

Hello Everyone!

We hope you had a great weekend. We have been out of touch the past few days due to the fact that we haven't been able to find any wireless networks or internet cafes.

After leaving St. Barthes we headed to Saba in hopes of finding some nice hiking. Unfortunatly, we found the anchorage to be rough and the walk to Bottom (the main village) was long on steep, narrow roads. Any hiking possibilites would begin in Bottom. We did get a 3 hour walk in to and from Bottom our first afternoon. That evening we had a BBQ on the boat and decided to head on to our next stop in the morning. After a very rough night at anchor we headed to St. Eustacia hoping for better hiking! We anchored in time to have lunch in town. After lunch we were adopted by a local dog. He followed us as we checked out the fort, and made out way to the trail we wanted to hike. On our way we noticed the other island dogs were very aggressive but they were all fenced or chained. We arrived to trail and there was the biggest dog of all not chained. (A german shepard/junk yard dog mix) He lunged out of the bushes-luckily the dog who adopted us began barking and we had enough time to back away. We abandoned our hiking plans for the day. Feeling discouraged we moved on the St. Kitts to arrive in time for dinner. We had a quiet dinner in a garden restaurant in St. Kitts and moved on to Nevis hoping to spend a night in the hotel though our american express points that we have been saving for something special. We were hoping for the 4 seasons but upon arrival we learned it was closed until April after Hurricane Omar damage. We spent the afternoon in Nevis grocery shopping, cleaning up the boat, and running on the beach. We had a BBQ Friday night and over our mahi mahi, cous cous, and brocolli brocolli we decided to head to Antigua the next morning. After a full day of sailing we arrived in St. Johns looking forward to going out to eat. We made the mistake of going to St. Johns because they are more of a commerical/cruise ship port. They didn't even have a dinghy dock for us! We ended up having dinner on the boat and heading to English Harbour in morning. We made it to English Harbour around 11 AM and are very happy we did. It is a charming harbour with sea turtles, a beach, and a nature walk-there is even a wifi network that we can pick up from the boat. It is a nice change from having to lug our laptops onto the dinghy than walking to the nearest internet cafe. We are going to stay here a few days, work on the boat, and enjoy civilization for a little while. Stay tuned for pictures of the past few days!

We hope you have a great week!