We are in Bequia, the Grenadines.  We will be here for four or five days as a tropical wave is coming through.

We are running short of time for our scheduled haul out in Trinidad so we did the Leewards south of St. Martin in 7 days.  We will visit these islands for longer times next season or on our way back in a couple of years.
 
Places we stayed along way.

St. Barts, Colombier Bay.  This is a beautiful beach, no houses (except Rockefellers); free mooring balls as long as you don't go on a weekend when all the locals come out for a day at the beach.  The entire bay was owned by Rockefellers but they donated it for a marine park.  We did not check in so we did not go to Gustavia.  Great little town (been thee on a charter a few years back).  Outer anchorage is rolly.  We met Paper Moon again and left with them the following morning.
 
St. Kitts did not check in - anchored for night at south end of island at White House Bay.  Only goats and cows on shore. 

Montserrat - did not check in - stayed north end at Rendezvous Bay for one night (you cannot anchor at the south end because of the active volcano).  On our way to Montserrat we passed the Kingdom of Redonda (a big rock).  There is an actual king but who it is depends on the courts to decide in England at the moment. 

We left the next day and attempted to go north around the island to go down the windward side as the guide book suggests to get a better sailing angle on Guadeloupe but the seas were too high (the end of each island has higher wind and seas due to the "island effect") so we turned around and Paper moon went back to the anchorage, and we continued down the leeward side to Guadeloupe.  When traveling along the shore of the island you need to be at least two miles out but you can still see the town of Plymouth in ruins covered in ash.  We did see smoke coming out of the volcano.

Guadeloupe - Stopped in Deshaies just for the night.  Deep harbor need to get close to shore on sides or toward town to find reasonable depths to anchor.  The guide says immigration only there in morning but other cruisers said there in pm.  Either way we missed them.  Only stayed night and left next am for Iles des Saintes and the little town of Le Bourg.  What a great place - we got there early enough to go ashore (still did not check in as only staying one night and no place to check in here). Went out to dinner but this is French so the restaurants do not even open until 7 pm.

Dominica - We picked up a mooring in Roseau.  We did not chick in as only one night.  This is the most rolly places ever been. We picked up a mooring as the water stays deep up to the shore.  We were three hundred feet off shore and the water was still 100 feet deep.  We encountered our first boat boy here.  To stop rolling  we could have put out our stern anchor or tied to shore to keep bow into swell but as we were leaving at 6 am did not want to deal with dinghy - so we had a bad nights sleep.

This the last island in the Leewards

Note:  The prevailing winds are east or south of east and range from 15-25.  We had moderate trades for our trip.  The wind is stronger as you approach the north end or south end of each island and the seas also are bigger, especially mid day.  As you approach the south end of an island from the north the island bends the wind direction so it is on your nose.  We planned our trip to anchor as far south on each island so that we could cross the south end of each island as early in the day as possible when the wind was lighter.  The crossings between islands averaged about 20 nm.  As we approach the north end of the next island the wind picks up but the island tends to bend the wind direction so it is on your beam or behind you.  The lee side of the islands was a piece of cake and sometimes had to motor, in fact on some islands the wind stopped and then switched to an on shore breeze (from the west).  Most of the time we had good 15 -20 knot winds and had great sails.