We spent one night in Ayers Creek and decided to move to a different location. We didn’t have a great view where we were because we were close to a hill with mangroves on it. We could see a beach to our left with one sailboat there and decided to check it out. This turned out to be a lovely anchorage. There were three nice homes on the hill overlooking the beach. And, there were wild donkeys on the hillside. It turned out that nobody was staying on the other sailboat so we had this bay to ourselves.

After one night, we moved on and checked out Clover Leaf Bay, which was supposed to have calm waters. This bay was odd in that there was a sprawling hotel, which looked to be abandoned, on one side and mangroves on the other. We decided not to anchor here and were contemplating on heading back to Falmouth Harbour, on the south western side of Antigua. We wound our way around the reefs at the entrance to the bay and were about to head out into the open ocean. To our surprise, Rickett Harbour only had a couple of boats anchored in it and we decided to stop there. This was my favorite anchorage of the entire area, which was located just outside of Nunsuch Bay. There was a beautiful white sandy beach in front of us and snorkeling right off of our boat. We were sheltered by a reef on one side and Green Island on the other. It turns out that daytrip boats visit this bay to snorkel in its calm waters. (We decided to wait to snorkel until after they left. ) The water was a little cloudy, but we were able to see the seabed 15 feet below our boat. We were treated to three different turtles grazing on the grasses below. They were at least four feet long and one even swam up beside us. Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures in this bay so you’ll have to use your imagination to envision it.