Montserrat |
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 Lots to eat at the pump house |
 Little Bay sea buoy |
 Looking down the west coast in the rain |
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With winds out of the east, the reach to Montserrat with an overnight stay at Little Bay or Cars Bay provides a welcome relief from a beat upwind to Antigua. |
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 Inside the pump house |
 Enjoying the sail to Montserrat |
 In need of repair |
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 This used to be the airport |
The northernmost of the volcanically active Caribbean islands, Montserrat’s southern half is uninhabited now, having been covered in ash from eruptions from its still smoking 3000-foot Soufriere peak over the past decade. |
 Still smokin' |
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 Sure-footed creatures |
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 | Volcanic activity in the south, however, did not diminish the beauty remaining in the northern half of the island having central hills to 2500 feet with a northern 1300-foot peak, and showed the stark contrast between the grey of the south and the lush green of the north. Montserrat's only white sandy beach is in Rendezvous Bay just around the point to the north of Little Bay and is good for picnicking and snorkeling in suitable weather and wind. | ||
| With a remaining population of around 4000 smiling faces, Montserrat, the “Emerald Isled” of the Caribbean is a great place to break up an otherwise lengthy sail into wind and waves from St. Kitt’s/Nevis to Antigua. |
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Below you can see a glimpse of what life was like a century or two or three ago on Montserrat. | |||
 To... |
 ...and fro |
 Harvesting |
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 Gwin' home |
These hand-drawn vignettes, depicting life on the island in centuries past, were displayed on a bulletin board inside an old stone pump house. |
 Up the river |
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 In the fields |
 Fishing |
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 Home life |
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