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British Virgin Islands and Culebra

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  After some great dives in  Jacques Cousteau bay, unfortunately no piccies as GoPro is broken, we headed up to  Deshaies on the North west of Guadaloupe to sign out of the French Antilles.  Another lovely safe harbour where we took a mooring ball for the night, got our exit stamp and left for the British virgin islands which would take  2 nights. On the second day on a crazy shallow bank near the island of Saba I caught a massive fish. Sadly it was a cooda which can carry ciguatera so we let him go. They look a bit scary though. We arrived on Sunday and dropped the anchor on the south side of Peter Island, British virgin islands as the customs and immigration was not open until Monday. A lovely empty anchorage except for 1 charter boat full of super friendly South Africans who gave us lots of bottled water as they were leaving the next day. After a peaceful nights sleep we sailed around the corner, about 8 miles, to the Capital of the BVIs, Road town, on Tortol...