Saturday, April 28, 2012

On from St Kitts

We checked out with immigration and customs from St Kitts early in the morning. This did not cost anything. To check in was 13 dollars for immigration and 3 dollars for customs. This was very cheap. Average is about 40 to 50 dollars since getting to puerto Rico. The Bahamas was 300 dollars for I think 6 months and Turks and Caiccos was 100 dollars for 1 week and if you stayed longer even a day it was 200. In the Domican Republic it was a real circus because you pay everyone like immigration agriculture tourist and harbour. I think it was about 120 dollars and on top every time you went to a different harbour you had to check out which was every time 20 dollars.
So leaving st kitts we went to Nevis which does with St kitts under UK. We had 24 hours to leave so we stayed on our boat on a mooring which cost $ 30 that we never paid because nobody came to collect and we left early. Then we had a difficult sail to Monsarrat because we could not just motor with wind waves and current against us do we tacked up and down for 10 hours. This is where I had been told Mick Jagger has a house. There is also an active vulcano which they believe can erupt any time. Therefor you can not anchor anywhere close. We anchored in a lovely bay and put our yellow flag up which means quarantine and we have not checked in. We never did check in and are now on our way to Guadeloupe. I am writing this being tossed around with waves about 6 feet and 18 knott wind again from wrong direction so more tacking today.

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