Thursday, January 31
We
woke up early and headed over to Terre D'en Haut to rent a scooter
and explore the main island of The Saints. A ferry runs from
Guadeloupe to Terre D'en Haut every day, arriving in the morning,
dropping off tourists and coming back in the afternoon around 4 pm to
pick them up and bring them back to Guadeloupe. We arrived just as
the morning ferry was arriving, so the streets were packed. There
were also three cruise ships anchored in the channel, so the island
was definitely busier that we had seen it over the past two days.
After
a quick breakfast at one of the many French cafes, we rented our
scooter and headed off on our tour of the island. We traveled down
each of the roads, most of which dead-ended at some gorgeous beach.
The island is not very big, so it was easy to see all of it from the
scooter within a couple of hours, and enabled us to decide which
beach we wanted to go back to. We stopped for a while at the Baie De
Pompierre which is a national park beach where no boats are allowed
to anchor, and it's one of the most protected bays in the Saints. It
is a beautiful beach, but also a very crowded beach, so we didn't
spend much time there after a quick swim in the ocean. We got back
on the scooter and headed up to Fort Napoleon which stands on the
northern hill overlooking the town, mainly to take some pictures of
the views from the top. This was another popular location for the
cruise ship and ferry passengers, so we decided to head back to our
favorite beach on the island, Plage de Rodriguez. We stopped for
some lunch and Ti Punch at Le Blue in the town on the way to the
beach. Plage de Rodriguez is exactly what we were looking for –
beautiful, and almost secluded with just one other couple on the
beach. We found a palm tree and relaxed on the beach for the rest of
the afternoon before heading back to return the scooter and head back
to the boat for the night.
View of Ilet a Cabrit from Terre D'en Haut
Gene looking like a badass on our scooter
Plage de Rodriguez
Plage De Pompierre
Laying under the palm trees at Baie De Pompierre
Guadeloupe in the distance
Church in the main town of Terre D'en Haut
We
moved the boat to a new anchorage that evening, behind Pain de Sucre
(off of Terre D'en Haut island), which is just across the channel
from Ilet a Cabrit. Pain de Sucre has a great dive site and it is
also in close proximity to the start of an awesome hike up to Le
Chameau, the highest point in the Saints, so we figured we'd be in a
good place to do both of these the next day. The anchorage was
pretty crowded with other sailboats and also pretty rolly compared to
our mooring ball in Ilet a Cabrit.
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