BACK ON ST. LUCIA

Rodney Bay became another home for us. Sailing into the anchorage, we try to spot familiar boats, sailors we became friends with the past six years of our Caribbean sailing.
The greetings begin, sunset drinks, Mexican train dominoes, exaggerated sailing and fishing stories. We came here to spend a week and we stayed two.
The bay is thinning out, though, spring is here. North is warming up and sailors are getting their boats ready for a rest on dry land. There are some, that are full time sailors, most of them retired people, that sold their houses and reduced their comfort into a small floating space. The healthy life on the water agrees with them. When the hurricane season starts, they leave the East Caribbean islands and sail south to Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad, or to the West Caribbean.