Rushed to shore to hit the local market (which is fabulous) to get necessities like beer, milk, samich meats, etc…and then Matt hit customs/immigration to clear us out of the country and I hit the Budget Marine and the local home goods store. The boys caught a beautiful 3′ barracuda yesterday with gouging teeth and all! We will upload photos at our next wifi spot as we need to hear out of Jolly to Barbuda (where we will not have wifi). Anyway, needed to get some gloves for the fisherman and dehumidifiers and other such fun sundries. With a dingy full of food, beverages and what not, we made the long trek back to the boat. Made a few early Christmas calls as we will not have wifi on Christmas Day, ate breakfast, checked the engines and will be on our way for the short 30-40 mile trek to Barbuda. More to come when we find wifi again. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

A wonderful lazy morning checking email, doing some small projects and cleaning up. We partook in some fabulous omelets before heading ashore around 9a. We needed to find euro and swing by the market for 2-stroke oil to make dingy fuel. We went to carefore, great market in the islands, and I found a woman who worked there, spoke English and walked me down the street to the bakery to get euro! Yes, she was French! All of the ATM machines don’t work, the bank and post office were closed when we arrived yesterday and very few places take plastic. Some will take visa but all of our European cards are MC. My bank card is visa so that will be scary returning to that bill when we get back. Anyway, the lady was soooo nice. We have so e euro and can start our walk. We are armed with 4.5 liters of water, bug spray and sunblock and head for the largest mountain on the island.

Le Chameau is famous here for its majestic views and 1000′ elevation. It took several hours and many stops to get there but we all did it. Fitbit said it was close to 9000 steps and 112 floors. Of course a squall hit at the top so we waited for it to pass in the fort-super funny! Anyway the way down was much easier and faster but when we got to town it was siesta and Sunday so all was closed Exocet one bar where we saddled up for some r&r! Gorgeous sunset and quiet night on the boat.