This missive will explain some of the pictures we sent in the last batch. After a couple of typical (yawn) breathtaking sunsets, we have a picture of our neighbors in Marigot bay abeam "Eaux Vives"; this is why we feel ours is a middle class yacht. :-)
    Wednesday was market day, so we decided to spend the day as tourists. We spent Tuesday trying to repair things and had the usual frustrations of some things refusing to be repaired, and requiring more trips to the store. Anyway, we deserved a day off. We dinghied to shore, looked at a few of the colorful stalls, and then found our way to the Boulangerie Parisienne, where we could have our cafe au lait and some of us could have our pain au chocolat. After sufficient cafe enjoyment, we wandered back to the market place where we bought a few souvenirs and some fruit and fish. This required us to return to the boat and put the food away, but we turned right around and returned to shore.
     We walked up the hill to the ruins of Fort Louis and took lots of pictures of our scenic surroundings. Some of the pictures are of the fort from below or from the fort looking down on the market and harbor. The fort was built to defend the honest islanders from the evil English pirates. There were some high school kids making a music video, but the boys were being lame although the girls had their dance routine all worked out. We walked back into town and enjoyed some galleries and other scenic spots. We took a bunch of pictures of the colorful buildings and gardens. We hope any gardeners amoung our readers will appreciate the lack of bouganvilla which have been carefully edited from the set. One picture is meant to illustrate why the alternate name for the West Indies is "Spice Islands". Many of the pictures from above are of Marigot bay with many boats (including Eaux Vives), and in some views you can see into the lagoon which has even more boats.