Friday. MB and Paul have a last Caribbean swim, followed by MB and JB doing a yoga session inside as it has become too hot to venture outside. We leave the Atlantis Marina, and refuel at 'Hurricane Hole'. We then leave on a 17 hour cruise to the USA. The weather is absolutely perfect, flat calm and warm. We are determined to catch fish with our special Ballyhu rigged baits. We enjoy a relaxed afternoon reading, doing the Age quiz, and get our first fish strike...

It is only a short trip to the island, which is run by two countries the Dutch and the French. For hundreds of years the Caribbean was the playground of imperialists who transported rum, slaves and gold between the new and old worlds. These far away kingdoms repeatedly conquered and retreated radically changing the areas political geography with the spark of a cannon. After years of giving up these sand strewn paradises, only one of the Caribbean's 7000 Islands...

We left Barbados flying to Miami then off to Atlanta, then Savannah in Georgia USA. We met our group from Victoria golf club in Harbour Town, to play golf there for the next two days. Our accommodation was a very nice luxury hotel on the Atlantic coast, with miles of white sandy beaches. There are24 in the golf group, all competitive players. After playing our two rounds of golf here, we moved onto Kiawah Island, three hours bus ride north, again very sumptuous ...