A night in Deep Bay

The winds had calmed down enough that we decided to keep going anti clockwise round the island. It was a great comfortable sail with the wind behind us and amazing how far we had to go inside the reef, before going into open waters. We passed the big industrial bay of St John’s, the main town of Antigua.

Leaving the celeb houses of Long island

Heavily reefed for the big wind proved not that necessary

Incredible colour water inside the reef

We decided to go into Deep bay which was the bay Luke, Rowan and I cycled to when we were staying at Galley Bay Resort. It’s a very protected bay, quite a few boats and you have to make sure you keep clear of the 1905 shipwreck that Rowan and I paddled out to. Only about 20 cms of the thick jagged metal funnel sticks above the water so the waves can hide it completely. The wind channelled through but was pleasantly refreshing. Phoebs and Daniel went on the paddle board to the beach and did the walk up to the fort that we had done.

Rowan and I stayed on board as we didn’t want his foot to get wet. There was plenty going on for us to watch. There was a guy on a motorised foil, who was clearly new to it but determined, entertaining us with spectacular head over heels, falling into the water. A rather gorgeous mother any daughter kept us intrigued on their paddle boards as they were swept out to sea in the wind. Rowan was desperate to do a galant rescue, but was thwarted by their crew who were looking after them. There was a huge very elegant Oyster sailing boat in the bay called Lush, we didn’t think the name suited a boat from our local Suffolk boat makers. Phoebs found the people from the boat at the beach and discovered the boat belongs to the owner of Oyster and he had leant these people his boat as they are potential buyers. We thought of our friend David Hill, who has always talked about buying one……

It was great to see the sunset and peace descend as the pesky, noisy jet skis disappeared.