After a few days in Dominica enjoying the relative peace on our hired mooring and with frequent visits to the beachside cafe of Sandy's Bar, we decided it was time to head further North to the French Island of Guadaloupe. The first part of Guadaloupe you arrive at, from the South, is the group of small islands called 'Isles des Saints'.
When we arrived in the islands we found a mooring buoy in the bay of Terre de Haut (the main town). It's quite difficult to get mooring buoys because of the large number of yachts in the area especially the big charter catamarans, so we had timed it right.
The islands were beautiful and the water amazingly clear. The depth of water at the boat was 15 meters and you could see the bottom. The town was interesting with it's traditional brightly painted cottages with verandas and coloured wrought iron roofs ( some had the ancient wood clinker roofs). Being French, and a tour destination for day trippers arriving from the mother island of Guadaloupe, the restaurants were very good. However if you look closely the island suffers from that local Caribbean malaise of trash and untidiness.
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