Took Neil and Sue over to St Lucia for a couple of days and spent the last night off Pigeon Island in Rodney Bay. We had a great meal in the local restaurant,  plus the odd rum punch, plus a few more back on board.  Next morning, an early start was a tad of a challenge but we set off back to Martinique in beautiful weather with the wind in just the right direction.  A great sail up to the Island was suddenly interrupted when I saw something large and grey in the water.  The next clue was a large plume of water and it was clear that we something large and whale shaped ahead.  Just as that happened the fishing rod gave a jerk and clearly something was happening astern as well.  The big fish were far more important (yes I know whales are mammals!!) and in the end we spent a few minutes in the company of 5 sperm whales gently heading off in the opposite direction – fantastic.  Back to the fishing rod – did we have a fish or not?  One moment it seemed so, the next the line went light.  As I reeled it in it was clear that a large Marlin was playing with the lure dashing in and then disappearing.  In the end we didn’t hook him and I can’t say I was disappointed as getting him on board would have been interesting to say the least.  So pretty good really except that that as we approached St Pierre, our destination, we were joined by a pod of about 15 Dolphins who played in our bow wave for half an hour.  Oh and we had no squalls and found a decent anchorage spot.  Tough life this Caribbean cruising!!

tough day at the office eh?

That's it then

cool!