Around 10:30a on 3.20.23 we pulled out of the marina.  It was bittersweet for me.  We met some wonderful people here and were feeling very comfortable living in the marina over the past month.  I was sorry to leave those new friendships behind.  However, after my nerves settled down, we had a wonderful sail to Frederiksted, which is a town on the western end of St. Croix.  The sun was shining high. We saw many leatherback turtles in the water and were sailing downwind with the jib harnessing the wind.  Schools of flying fish sailed in the air in front of the boat on our sail down.  Unfortunately, we didn’t see any whales, but that was OK.  It was a very enjoyable sail.

There is a Celebrity Sumit Cruise Ship tied up to the dock in Frederiksted.  (Royal Caribbean cruise ships docked the next two nights.) Because of the weather later in the week, we were unable to schedule our time here when cruise ships were not docked.  We don’t see that many people.  However, they have a loud band playing and the music is clashing with the music from the beach bar on shore.  I’m sure they will pull out this evening and a new one will dock by morning.  Frederiksted is supposed to be very sleepy when the cruise ships are not docked.