"Blue" just doesn't do it justice

L'ORIENT at anchor in The Cove, Jolly Harbour Antigua

Antigua has been a beautiful surprise. The only thing I had heard about the island was Tom recounting a trip in the 80s when his shoes were stolen from the beach. Those original Chuck Taylors are probably worth a fortune today. When we navigated the reef to come into the Jolly Harbour anchorage, I knew that the shoe incident would be a distant negative memory. The water color just left us both speechless. Nowhere else in the Caribbean have we seen this kind of mint blue/green water that glows during the day and almost shimmers at night. We anchored around noon and the water was so bright that it was almost blinding.

Our private beach at The Cove, Antigua

Antigua is truly the tale of two islands.....at least two sides of the same island. Falmouth Harbour has the mega sailboats and power yachts but the rest of the island is too shallow for that lot so the rest of Antigua's anchorages are for people like us............just a couple of homeless folks trying to catch a break. Some of Antigua's anchorages and its neighboring island Barbuda are out of the question even for us due to depth - even here we only have three feet of clearance under our keel. 

Anyway, private beach......dolphins........stingrays.........it may be shallow but it beats DC.