This is the beautiful anchorage opposite Pigeon Island, huge turtles everywhere, we want to re-visit
Just after setting the anchor, we heard a dull thud and immediately turned off the engines. Our worst fear was realised... the water maker bracket had broken. Someone must've been looking out for us as nothing else was damaged and we had managed to fill the tanks and flush the water maker membranes. Now we had four days to get the bracket re-welded(we couldn't flush or pickle the system until it was repaired) and our onboard water had to last as well.
We had some time to decided what to do....in the meantime our mission was to dive at Pigeon Island. Jaques Cousteau named it one of the 10 top dive sites in the world. I guess for the Caribbean he wasn't wrong, as it was our best dive spot so far.
Our camera isn't uber professional so the photos don't do the place justice. There are huge schools of pelagic fish that swim around and everything is full of vibrant colour, provided you don't dive too deep.
Tour boat from the anchorage.
Anyway we had to decide where to have the bracket repaired, either try and get it done in French Guadeloupe or sail up to English Antigua. We decided our French isn't as delicious as our English, therefore we checked out of Deshais after shopping at the 'friendly SPAR!!!!!'
For our non SA friends the SPAR is a supermarket chain in South Africa
ON OUR WAY TO ANTIGUA...
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