Bon Jour amigos.....Well that is a little French and Spanish mixed up, but we are a little mixed up too.
Internet is so hard to find in Basse Terre and when you do find it, it is very slow.  So must get this out quickly and with very few pictures.  The good news is I did find my device to import pictures from the camera to the ipad, and I have booked a flight back to the USA.

Downtown Nevis

Cafe with egg cactus bush

Cow walking on beach

Today is June 10th and we are in Guadeloupe.  Our trip didn't go as we planned, but I will fill you in on that right now.  We had planned to leave Nevis on June 1st, but had to turn back after the engine died.  We had trouble with the fuel intake line, and Will thinks we should probably have left with a full tank of diesel.  So we returned and anchored near the town dock.  After 5 trips in the dingy to land, he walked about 20 minutes each way to fill our jerry jugs with diesel.  Tired but tanks full we spent our last night in Nevis.

We left again on June 2nd and still had trouble with the same engine problem even with all that fuel.
But we had good winds so put up both our main sail and little jib and were moving along just fine but not in the direction of Monserat.  We talked it over and thought,...let's just head in this direction and we could make Grenada in 3 or 4 days.

That didn't happen!!  However, Will was able to repair engine again before the winds died.  We were 40 miles off the coast of Guadeloupe, so with engine and sails working together with light winds, we made it to Deshaies, Guadeloupe and had anchor set by 12:15 pm on June 4th.

We enjoyed Deshaies...pronounced Day Hay. Although we never found anyone that spoke English, Will's rusty Francais from Canada helped. Checking into customs was easy....on a computer and no problem with Bentley.  We moved on to Pigeon Cove on June 6th and the last 12 miles to Basse Terre on June 7th.

We have enjoyed doing laundry, visiting the French bakeries, and making a trip by car with friends we met at the wedding we attended in May.  They took us to a National rain forest and we climbed up  windy steps to see the waterfall named Chutes du Carbet.   Now we are waiting for a local sail maker to do some repairs to our big jib which was tearing.

We have 280 miles to go to get to Grenada.  Our next stop will probably be Dominica, but who
knows!   Guess we will just have to see where the wind will take us.