{"id":5144,"date":"2024-02-18T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaibrueckner.de\/blog_amy\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:59:17","slug":"californie-and-st-pierre-martinique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaibrueckner.de\/blog_amy\/?p=5144","title":{"rendered":"Californie and St. Pierre (Martinique)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The next morning I left the anchorage at Fort Saint Louis and went to a place called Californie in the Coh\u00e9 du Lamentin only a few miles away. This place wasn\u2019t particularly pretty (there was a huge oil refinery in the background) but it was unbelievably quiet and had access to some good stores. I needed to repair my dinghy again and bought a wooden pole, some groceries, a t-shirt and a pair of shorts. Shlepping my bags back to the beach (3km) was no easy task and I was very happy when a lady in a car stopped and asked if the monsieur would still have to walk far.
She drove me all the way to the dinghy and I was very relieved since it was early afternoon and the sun was boiling again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the next couple of days I recorded guitar parts for the new Th\u00e4richens Tentett album, repaired my oarlock with the wooden pole which I had bought one size too small and then got on my way to St. Pierre in the north of the island where I was to meet Andi and Kudi again.\u00a0
St. Pierre was totally destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Pel\u00e9e in 1902 but the picturesque village had been rebuilt with some beautiful old colonial style houses on the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The three of us climbed said Mt. Pel\u00e9e and we had fantastic views although going up there wasn\u2019t very much to see because we were in the rainclouds. The climb and descent was very exhausting and we were happy when we finally got to a road and were given a ride on a motorcycle (me) and in a car (Andi and Kudi).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I cleaned Amy\u2019s underwater hull again. This seems to be necessary almost once a week now. The bottom paint has no seems to be totally ineffective by now.
Very early the next morning we set sail for Dominica.<\/p>\n\n\n

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