Day in Ile Fourchou
Stargazer of Southampton
Susie and Adam (both think they are skipper)
Wed 13 Apr 2011 00:11
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We spent a full day in Ile Fourchou, it was
fantastic to be out anchored in a little bay with nothing there again other than
a few other yachts. The island I think looks more green in summer which is
the wet season, it is covered with grass but this was mostly dead at this time
of year with the only vegetation being some cacti - there used to be goats on
the island and they deforested it completely, there are no goats any more.
It would have been prettier if it still had forest - however - the underwater
scenery made up for that.
The bay has free mooring buoys because it is part
of the St Barts Marine park, we had to anchor at first but shifted to a buoy as
soon as one came free. The water was beautifully clear and we had rays and
turtles swimming under the boat. Had to go for a dive yesterday afternoon,
there is a reef over the other side of the bay by the little island on the photo
below, you can tell that there is no fishing around here allowed as there were
loads of fish and some big barracuda so we had a great dive,feels like the first
dive we've done in ages after our stay in a marina!
Here's the view across the bay from the boat, in
the day it looks more like parts of the canaries rather than
the Caribbean . . . . and there were some great clouds at sunset
so another pic of that too. It's actually been pretty cloudy here the past
couple of days which has made a good break from the heat in St
Martin.
 The last light of the day
 This is a porcupine fish - they are quite big,
about a foot and a half long, I think that they can puff up like puffer
fish - they don't look like real fish, they look like cartoon fish with
those big odd eyes, but very sweet trundling about on the reef
 schools of fish hiding around
overhangs
 Sponges and things covering the rocks
 Angelfish being cleaned by little yellow cleaner
wrasse, you can get your hands cleaned by the wrasse too if you know where the
cleaning stations are, but this one was a bit too close to lots of coral which
you don't want to risk damaging by getting to close to it. . . anyway -
our hands were clean and the wrasse were busy
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