Ile Fourche

Ile Fourche

Polde at work

Mahogany snapper (I wish I wasn't on the picture, but what the heck)

Another day in paradise

Sailing SE from St.Maarten towards St.Barth, our eyes spoted a rock sticking out of the sea, as we came closer, it became a small island with one bay, large enough for eight moorings.

Ile Fourche is only inhabited by birds, it is rocky, covered by some grass, and decorated only with a few trees, sheltered behind the top of the hill.

The water is many shades of emerald, we could not move our eyes from it. Then we bathed in it and it felt like oil. Until...

Late afternoon, the dusk was already approaching, I saw a fin curving out of the water. It was not a dolphin's fin. Dolphins are social, they run in groups and freuently come for air. By the shape and colour of the fin, I thought it was a reef shark, not dangeruos (by the book), attacing only occasionally. We just didn't want to be his occasion, so we always checked the water oround the boat, before we went for a swim.

We got a small tear in our genoa on the way here, we repaired it in the morning calms with the sail tape.

At night I caught a mahogany snapper, being out of the water it turned deep gold. What a beautiful creature.