{"id":1626,"date":"2018-04-08T18:26:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2018-04-08T18:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:26:53","slug":"guadeloupe-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/2018\/04\/guadeloupe-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Guadeloupe, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guadeloupean facades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It took us a full day of sailing to round Basse-Terre and reach Guadeloupe’s largest city, Point-\u00e0-Pitre in Grande-Terre, which we used as a base to explore both islands by land, enjoying the pleasure of driving on the right side. This time we stayed at a marina, but we had to go through a rite of passage that every sailor dreads (or at least sailors who didn’t grow up sailing in the Mediterranean Sea): the first mediterranean mooring. With med-mooring, marinas fit more boats in a dock because you dock stern-to, separated by other boats by mere fenders. In the hard version\u00a0you drop your anchor a couple boat lengths from the dock and then backup to the dock. It usually leads to a tangle of anchors that only a diver can fix. It’s good business for the divers guild. In the easy version there’s a line of buoys parallel to the dock. You first backup to the dock, passing through the line of buoys, some of the buoys on either side, one or two between the hulls; then tie to the dock; and lastly the marina boys in their dinghy tie your bows to one of those buoys. I had the easy version. And I flunked it.<\/p>\n

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Marina Bas-du-Fort, Point-\u00e0-Pitre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In my defense I can say that I had the hard version of the easy version, because\u00a0in Marina Bas-du-Fort’s fairways there’s not much more than a boat length of space between the buoys for your dock and the buoys for the dock in front (see picture above). And it was windy. And I should have listened to my first mate, who suggested to enter the fairway stern-first. Instead I decided to turn around in the fairway, trusting that I could turn \u00d1and\u00fa on a dime. The wind showed absolutely no respect for my dime and\u00a0 pushed the boat just enough towards the opposite line of buoys, which I didn’t notice until the port engine shut down with a terrifying shudder. The propeller caught the buoy’s line and we got helplessly stuck. Jean-Marc from the marina had to come with his dinghy and push us back and forth to set us free. How embarrassing. Luckily things went smoothly from there, and in the end the only thing that was damaged was my pride.<\/p>\n

Point-\u00e0-Pitre<\/h2>\n
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Delicious rum concoctions at the spice market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The very modern and well-curated slavery museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Self-portrait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sculpture with sardine cans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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La Soufri\u00e8re<\/h2>\n

La Sufri\u00e8re is an active volcano whose last eruption occurred in 1976, and the highest peak of the Lesser Antilles (1500m\/4900ft). We climbed it accompanied by one third of the entire Chilean population in Guadeloupe. It turns out that a high school classmate of Kathy lives here, and they reunited after 35 years, thanks to the magic of social networks. They do as they please with your data, but they do connect people!<\/p>\n

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Beautifully maintained trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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That’s the most we saw of the volcano, which is still more than people usually get to see<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brief glimpse of the Caribbean Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Roxana and Kathy, wet at the summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hiking down. Just the mountain and nothing else.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A great day around Basse-Terre Island<\/h2>\n
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It started with a hike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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To a Plage Naturiste for a pic-nic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Followed by La Route de la Traverse across the Guadeloupe National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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To a refreshing splash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And ended with great beer at the local brewery Les Bi\u00e8res de la L\u00e9zarde with a stunning view of the national park. No, I’m not into piercing my cranium with miniature feather dusters; that’s a palm tree in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grande-Terre Island<\/h2>\n
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Sainte Anne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Circular market in Saint Fran\u00e7ois<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pointe Des Chateaux<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Trail to the other nudist beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took us a full day of sailing to round Basse-Terre and reach Guadeloupe’s largest city, Point-\u00e0-Pitre in Grande-Terre, which we used as a base to explore both islands by land, enjoying the pleasure of driving on the right side. This time we stayed at a marina, but we had to go through a rite … Continue reading “Guadeloupe, part II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GCAo-qe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}