French little Island group - Les Saintes

The wind has dropped a bit on the day we leave Dominica, we use this small weather window to sail further up north, our destination Guadeloupe. As usual we are leaving the harbour early and by the time our eyes are wide open we can already see Les Saintes, a group of French Island 5 miles before Guadeloupe. The wind has picked up again and so we decide to take shelter in between the island and to stock up on Baguette, French Cheese and Red Wine to wash it all down. There is no space to anchor and we have to take a mooring ball. We had heard that you have to come early to be able to get a mooring, and we are in luck. Unfortunately it’s one on the outside of the mooring field and so we catch the swell and have a very rocky day and night. As we are getting ready to leave the bay after breakfast, we see that a mooring close to land gets free, we race to the front of the Catamaran and Sven switches the engines on and off we go and motor to the free mooring. Yeah….we made it and what a reward, there is no swell, we are lying calm, like on a duck pond...we decide to stay a few days longer....the ice-cream here is extremely delicious :)