kitts to guadaloope

We    awoke before daylight and waiting for enough light to leave the illegal (for us)mooring.  Once free we headed SE for a close sailby the active volcano on Monsorant.  The mountain is still steaming even though the last eruption was 10 years ago we still had someawesome scenery.  

notice the village in the lower right corner

west side, I thought it was blowing from the top but actually the land is smoking it is so hot

southwest side shows some of the recent lava flow

my first vertical rainbow

closer than it looks

It is measured with a range finder, 27 yards to the rocks above water

We slid past it with no misshaps and on down to Guadalupe and thought we would anchor at Deshais Bay but changed our minds and decided to go farther south to bum Pigeon Cove, despite reservations about approaching nightfall and unknown anchorage.  It was full dark when we got there and the first to mooring balls we picked up were actually lobster traps so we decided to just do an overnight on down to Dominica.  On the way out of the bay, we spotted some reflections on mooring balls for dive boats at the Jacque castles international underwater park so we grabbed one for the night, again illegal.  The first one grabbed back and wrenched the boat hook out of Sally's hand almost breaking her arm.  The second try we made it, tied off securely and killed the engine.  The damn ball has us only 80 ft. from crashing into the rocks.  The waves were breaking on the rocks like a symphony orchestra which would usually lull us to sleep but 80 ft!  If the lines broke I could not get the engine started before being crushed on the rocks.  Remember this is pitch black dark.  We woke early to head out and the rocks were still right where  we left them, the water was crystal clear, could see the bottom clearly at 40 ft depth.

We motorsailed for a little while till the waves & wind clocked on our nose, then we just motored.  We passed Isle de Saints and vowed to not miss it on our return.  It is a  couple of small islands with a population of less than 4,000 residents