We set sail from Antigua to Deshaies, French Guadeloupe and had an awesome sail all in 1 tack, wow. The winds and seas were great allowing us to do between 5 and 8 knots. Deshaies is a cute fishing village with just a couple of streets with French restaurants, produce and souvenir shops. You clear in at Le Pelican an Internet cafe, which does not look like a customs office. Very efficient computerized process though. Brett wishes everywhere was like this……

We had heard about a great hike from SV Zero to Cruising, which starts on the left side of  the Deshaies River on a concrete road and then you wind your way up the river through the mountains jumping from boulder to boulder.  We had a lot of fun.  It takes about 2 hours to get to a parking lot on your left where you can stop but if you continue up the river for about another 20 minutes you get to a giant cave gully with a pool of water and a huge boulder in front, where there is a waterfall behind it. Pretty impressive. You get out by going back to the parking lot and following the concrete road back down and eventually you arrive back into town after about 40 minutes. We couldn’t believe how high up we were. Really enjoyable hike and the swim at the end was so appreciated.

After loading up with some French cheese and wine we have decided to head to Les Saintes, Guadeloupe as we have heard some great things about it.