Nevis is both beautiful and an island full of interesting history, including the birth place of Alexander Hamilton (his father had a sugar plantation on Nevis) and the famous English sea captain, Horatio Nelson, married a wealthy widow from Nevis whose family owned Nisbet Plantation. We had a lovely lunch at The Hermitage House, built in the 1640's and the oldest wooden house in the Caribbean. They served the most amazing mango cobbler for desert!

 Living room at The Hermitage House, circa 1640's

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 Lots of goats on the island of Nevis. This pair got separated from their mother.

Alexander Hamilton was born in this house.

Saba is an island that most people have never heard of. It's close to St. Martin. We enjoyed three very beautiful, peaceful days at anchor there mid July with only a couple of other boats. The diving was absolutely amazing, and we toured the small island (only 5 square miles) in a few hours. All of the buildings there are painted white with green shutters and red roofs.

On May 19, 2016 (exactly 7 years to the day that we left in 2009 to buy our first boat in Panama!), Ricky and I flew to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands to purchase our second catamaran. We kept the name of our first boat, Always Sunday, because we had such an amazing time living aboard for 14 months, and our new boat came with the name Tequila ( I've never even tasted Tequila).
Because this is our second cruising experience, it was easier to pack things from home to bring with us, but much harder to actually provision this time because our first boat was stocked with most items needed to live on the boat, like dishes, pots and pans, and extra boat parts. The new boat, although three years old, came with nothing, and so we have spent the last two months having work done and taking major shopping excursions (with lists a mile long) to outfit the new boat. We plan to stay in the Caribbean for the first year, then we really want to visit South America and then, hopefully, on to the South Pacific in time.