First the crew: Bruce. Do I look happy, or what?

Gary at the wheel departing St. Barts for St. Kitts

Mark at the wheel on the way back to St. Martin

This is the boat. Park service mooring at Oranjestad.

Galley and lunch prep. See, us guys can fend for ourselves!

Radio and electrical panel. You learn this pretty well in a week

The "Apogee." We had to share an anchorage at Anse De Colombier

Other more plebean folk shared the anchorage also

Typical village on the NW corner of St.Kitts

Brimstone Hill Fort on the Western shore of St. Kitts

Marina at Basseterre. Percy was our good buddy. Please ignore the sox on the lifeline

Island get-away at White House Bay

Looking back toward Basseterre from White House Bay

Generator on shipwreck - White House Bay

Mark checking out the screw of the shipwreck (Don't know ship name)

Bruce checking out bow of wreck. No SCUBA needed for this one!

Fishes and coral

An inviting garden near the customs house on Nevis

Thank you for letting us visit (and fill out all that paperwork)

Little known fact: Nevis is Alexander Hamilton's birthplace

Not too shabby digs considering it is from the 1700's

Have to have that baguette to go with dinner

One star for Nevis, one for St. Kitts

Oranjestad has an upper town and a lower town. Note the fort

I saw two of these bad boys in a couple of hours. Note the size as compared to the beer bottle nearby. I'm told they are harmless(?)

The fort in the upper town has been nicely restored with a museum

Fort entrance. I traded cameras with another tourist

You WILL pay your mooring fees, or else!

There is a volcanic cone in the middle of the island

Trail to the volcano crater. I hiked while Gary scuba dived

The volcano trails give you a lot of choices

Trails are maintained by St. Eustatius Nature Parks

View back to the harbor from start of volcano trail

The old slave road. Not a pleasant day-job, I expect

That's the Dutch Navy delivering stuff. The ruins in the foreground are warehouses from the 18th century

Statia makes its money trans-shipping oil. A free-trade island

When not on the wheel, Mark has been known to "lay back"

Arriving at Marigot Bay in French St. Martin. A wonderful harbor

At Marigot, we finally got to see the sun. Video wallpaper, for sure

I can't stop taking pictures of sunsets. Especially the first of the trip

I hope that sky color comes through. Marigot bay again

It's just hard to get away from the upper-crust

Marigot is an interesting town. The capital of French St. Martin

A coffee shop. The european-style ice cream was in that freezer over to the left, behind the kid

Open air trinket market next to the harbor

Another view of Marigot. A great place to anchor

The dingy dock at Marigot. Lots of room for visitors

Bluffs on Tintamarre. A sand beach is to the right

Some folks just swam off the back of their boat

Can you find the camouflaged fish in the picture?

Sargent-Majors hiding under a rock

This is what St. Martin looks like from Tintamarre

Back in the dock, neatening up the "French Kiss" for the last time

Shot of the main Moorings pier. We're the 2nd boat in