The Pitons St Lucia 1 June

Here we are between the Pitons in a marine park bay. 2 days ago we moved from Rodney bay to Marigold bar which was a beautiful fairy tale kind of place. Went ashore and had happy hour. I had 2 piña coladas and rocky had coco loco so exchanged and both had one each. Very enjoyable I also put a photo of our boat with the new letters on it. Took a while but we think it looks good. Afer Marigold we went to Souffriaire where we ran into a bit of trouble. You get these boat boys here everywhere who meet you miles out. You just go with the flow and let them guide you in throw them the ropes for a mooringand give a few dollars. Anyway we did this then went to a nice bat cave and ashore. We always lock our dinghy to the dock. This time a very pushy guy told us just to put the rope because he was lying after it. He was so agressive in his ways that we all did. Then ashore we were bombarded with people wanting money and selling things. We had to go to customs and immigration to check out they give then 24 hours to leave When we got back to the dock the guy told us he wanted 30 EC which is about 12 dollars. We said we would give what we thought and he got quite upset. However we did. We moved the boat because it was too roley on that mooring. Halfway across our motor kept stopping very scary. This boat boy with a big wooden boat kept wanting to help and was in the way. Rocky kept telling him to go but he wouldn't. We had near collision and he made it very difficult for us. In the end I still wanted to give 10 EC which is the going rate. But he did not want this. He wanted more. So rocky told to take it or nothing because we had not needed him and he was more a hindrance. He got very threatening saying like 'you want trouble man'. In the end I told rocky to give him 20ec. The took it and left. Later a police boat came to our friends cat while Rik was helping rocky with the blockage in the fuel line. It was a routine check and they told the police about the annoying people and particularly about our experience. So they came on our boat and wanted us to report the person to the police station we did not sleep well that night thinking this guy might come in the night and cut our dinghy or something. We did not report him and are now further south in this gorgeous marine park. I made mango chutney and breadfruit with chili and coconut milk. This with a big thick steak so we had a great meal. Rocky cleaned the diesel today so tomorrow we will leave for St Vincent and the Grenadines. We are bypassing St Vincent because we are told it is not safe. This means 55 miles tomorrow and we should be able to sail. Lots of wind says the forecast.