S/V Nada: Marie Galante

We haven’t been to this small round island before simply because it ment sailing East against the wind. For the same reason the bays there are not overcrowded with sailboats.
We anchored in the Grand Bourg Bay and stayed there four days, shared a rented car with ‘LAIMA’ crew and toured the island.
Marie Galante is self sufficient. High tech windmills produce electricity; we drove by solar panel fields; cattle everywhere. The island is neat, countryside and the towns are clean, no plastic bags and empty bottles caught in the shrubs. People are well dressed.
The main crop is sugar cane, that used to be ground by 600 sail driven windmills. Le Moulin de Bezard has been restored to crush cane for visitors. In spite of today’s modern technology, ox drawn carts still haul the cane.