Carlisle Bay, Antigua

We left after the sun came up this morning for a 9 mile journey to Carlisle Bay.  We like to go to the different anchorages, it gives you a feel for the island.  In this case, it also allowed us to pass right in front of a huge home that we're told is owned by Eric Clapton (musician from the '70s?).  This anchorage had clearer water than any we've seen so far in Antigua.  The water has been silty with a lot of the sea wave movement and visibility under the water has not been good at all.  In Carlisle Bay, the visibility is probably about 10 feet.  I'm guess this because we are anchored in about 10 feet of water and I can just make out all of the starfish on the bottom.  Carlisle Bay has a lot of beautiful starfish.  We also saw one manta yesterday on our snorkeling adventure but honestly, with the visibility at about 10 feet, we just turned around and went back to C-Time.  We've been spoiled but such great visibility when we snorkel that this just wasn't worth it to us.

It's beautiful little bay we are in with a nice beach front  hotel with the long white sandy beach in front.  It is a very nice setting and we were joined with about 10 other boats throughout the day.  By the time the sun was going down, we were the only ones left in the Bay.  Made us wonder, what did everyone else know that we didn't?  Probably, they just had other places to go because, besides the visibility issue, it was a fairly nice anchorage.  I pulled out a box of pizza mix and whipped us up a pizza for dinner.  Not as good as Domino's but it was good.  We took our pizza to the cockpit and munched away, watching the sun set.