
Logoon at St.Anne-Guadeloupe

In the of lagoon St.Anne. jan 2008

Working on my blog and French lessons

Ti gacho said: I am a industrial fisherman

Langoustine, crabs and coral

Delicious, but not for every day

foto: Anke Hemman

Childrens carnival 2008 at St.Anne

Friendship (foto: Anke Hemman)


Jeu de boule as in France

Carnival, Caribbeans with the masters whip





foto: Anke Hemman

foto: Anke Hemman


Group from island Bagad Kurakera, descendants from Brittany

Isles Des Saintes (Bagad Kurakera)

june 2009, on my way to Saba, an official Dutch municipality spe

Saba, at the mooring (40m depth) near the (ladder to customs hou

The only beach on Saba

Impression of shape of Saba-Windwardside (source:Wiki)

Centuries this was the only place to land goods on Saba

Until 1938 this was the only road to bring goods to the communit



Seems that princess Juliana of the Netherlands once had to walk

The village Windwardside

Medical school with foreign students (US,Canada)

Everyday in the clouds

The shortest commercially used runway in the world.

Carriacou sloop Good Expectations from Martin

At Anguilla, instructing crew, hopeless

Living area

Martin cooking lunch

Regatta
Anguilla



Genesis with Alexis Andrews, who promotes building new Carriacou

Local Skiff, races only one a year

Canadian gift, flagpoles, which are the obligatory masts

Filling sandbags (ballast)

High tec sails


Filmcrew of Discovery Chanal sails with us to St.Martin



Bequia

Laundry service

Since june 2007 I never did my own laundry

Carribean way of living

Normal catch, 21 Dorades

Fishmarket Bequia, 1 Kg 4 Euro

Attention for drugs abuse

Attention for drugs abuse

How to deliver goods to Islands without harbour

Rastefarian reflections

Rastefarian reflections


Here were the new Cricket world-champions raised


Entered with the foreward looking sonar


16.00, the chartercats are gone home

Tobago Cays, fresh grilled lobster delivered

Hans and Eddy, brothers

This is the Caribbean

Carribean sailing, but it is not always like that

Carribean sailing, sometimes

30 Kn of wind on the head

An everning at Soufriere, St.Lucia

Victim of hurricane Omar

Victim of hurricane Omar


Joy !!


The Atlantic, where I came from



Paradise and solitude

Cooking on wood in Caribbean kitchen

boabab wins



Grenada, Georgetown

Police academy, in use but heavily damaged by hurricane Ivan

here prime minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada and comrades died

The Anglican church has no roof ince hurricane Ivan

Service in the aisle, the vicar believes in a rebuild of the chu

Sint Nicolas with gifts

Grenada inlands

Another time: Ivan was here

Deserted plantation, the people work in other countries

The last original Caribbean indigenous jumped her to death in 16

Here the US invasion from 1983 started, now it is he only highwa

Remains of a Cuban airplane along the highway

Carnival in Grenada











Up to Carriacou

Active volcano Kick 'Em Jenny, 1 Nm away in the sea

Sunday in Hillsborough, Carriacou

Tyrrel Bay, Carriacou, I love this place


Potluck at the Yacht Haulout



Hutch, a retired US airman who lives from a 400USD pension a mon

This type of travelers is almost extinct

Martin working on his Carriacou sloop

The Sister Rocks, my beloved diving-spot

Diving in the Caribbean has an own chapter

This type of low-budget cruisers can find a place here

Daily ritual, fishing for diner, take your time and priorities

Without words

Entering the reef of Windward, Carriacou

He is stuck on the reef, how we get out?


The Carriacou sloop revives

The Carriacou sloop build with chain-saw, hammer and chisle

Leaving the reef on the Intergraph

This map cannot be trusted, we got out without damage, min depth

Fuel for the island of Carriacou, one petrol station, 100 rum-sh

Denise, sells me fruits and vegetables

Good old Andy with the only BMW with sidecar in the Caribbean

Friday-nights, steel-pan music at Labi Queen, I loved it


29 sept 2008, after the party

The rain-season

Hurricane Omar is nearby

For one moment Omar was expected to return like Ivan

All the boats will enter the Mangrove lagoon

The safest part, just 1.3m. Only multihulls can stay there

Tyrrel bay is almost empty

Everyone has chosen for the safe place


The work-shack of Dominique is entering and has the right on the

With this waves on can not enter shore with the dinghy
