Martinique

I went to Martinique once, it was closed..

Well pretty much.. there is a strike going on which means shops are closed and kids seem to be off school, and thus out all night and day. having cleqred customs in Fort de France we returned to our dingy to find one of three tubes somewhat deflated. Seeing all the kids on the dingy dock we assumed they had been playing in it while we explored town, it was not a huge problem so we ignored it.. bad idea.. we went back in the evening for a meal, upon once again returning to the dingy we found it deflated. Two tubes this time.. with twenty cuts from a knife. So Tim had to ferry us back out one at a time. I stayed ashore and waited, in that time 6 teenagers came along throwing glass bottles about (from which they had probably been drinking). Upon seeing Tim heading back to shore in the deflated dingy, they began to throw the bottles towards him, while one came up behind me trying to scare me by yelling something that I have no idea what was. Tim got to shore and picked me up, as I was getting into the dingy the one who had yelled tried to get close enough to push me over the edge (he was hiding his face with a scarf and chickened out when I turned my face towards him). We motored out of there slowly in a half sunk dingy under fire of glass bottles and a bag of rubbish that hit me (how does one dodge while in a sinking dingy where movement makes things worse?).

We spent three days repairing the dingy and warning outher yachties of what happened to us. During this time we watched as the kids on the dingy dock messed with more dingys.

Have to go, will finish later.