December 2016, I felt the need to move from Martinique. Then on the 29 th I and Balrog flew to the freezing north of France (taking off Martinique 33 degrees Celsius landed Paris Minos 6)... I stayed there for 3 weeks, just enough to catch up with family and friends and leave Balrog at my mum place while I flew to Australia for 3 weeks also. Australia was very great, warmer than France for sure even though it was a bit chilly. No need to tell you how nice it was to see everyone, in France and Australia, after being alone on the boat from May to December 2016 but I just needed time...
Australia was a little step forward for me as I went there not only to see family but to finally give Monty his freedom on the Ocean as he wished to. I, Kirra and Alex sailed from Torquay Beach to southside beach/Bells beach on a hobie cat tiger from the Torquay sailing club. We opened a path of white roses to spread Monty's ashes to the ocean and closed the path the same way. Here a little video about it :
Time for me to fly back to France, pick up Balrog and jump in a plane toward Martinique where Sephina was waiting for us on the marina dock.
I had few things to fix up, change and repairs and after a couple of week we where back sailing again.
I sailed from Martinique to Antigua with a couple of friends of mine, Shirley and Valo who wanted to discover how life is on the sea, so we had few stops in Dominica and Guadeloupe.
Antigua is one of our favorite island in the Caribbean especially Green island, non such bay as Monty love to kite surf over there! He also always wanted to do the Classics regatta but Unfortunately we always left before the start as our visa was running out after a few months stay...This year I decided to be there in time and participate to few races, so did I ! Thomas and Audrey generously accepted to take me as a crew on their Beautiful 1924 sailing vessel Samsara. Such a great experience!
After a week and a half of great time in Antigua, Falmouth and green Island, it was time to sail back down to Guadeloupe and say Bye bye to my friends.
I stayed anchored at Deshaies, north west coast of Guadeloupe, for around a month and then sailed down to Martinique again. I still thinking about where I will spend the Hurricane season this year...most likely Grenada, st Georges.
