Articles about 'Saint Barthelemy'

We've spent a lovely few days anchored out at the north end of St. Barths in the Anse de Columbier Bay which is a nature reserve. They have put out a number of nice mooring buoys free of charge to encourage folks to use them instead of anchoring. From what we saw, the local turtle population appreciates it! We snorkeled among them for several days and really enjoyed the reef structure...

We had to motor around the southern end of Statia to pick up a nice tack direct to Gustavia. Our sail over was superb with great winds once again and a pleasant motion on the yacht. We had the last of our chicken Roti we got back in English Harbour. Pulling into St. Barths, Tracy and I went to Gustavia to do clearance and some shopping. As usual, clearing customs in St. Barths is very...

Another terrific day of sailing on a five hour passage from the posh island of St. Barths to the green and lush island of St. Kitts. The consistent trade winds that are here give us a delightful 20 kts every day right out of the east so our passage to St. Kitts was on a fine reach in moderate seas. As we came around the corner of the north end of St. Kitts we noted how St. Eustatius...

In the many years we spent exploring the Caribbean we'd never made it to St. Bartholemy. During our years of flying, St. Barth's was intriguing but off limits to us as the runway is renowned in the aviation world for being one of the toughest to handle. The French agree as they insist on you taking a course and annual test ride with an instuctor to be able to land there. Without good...