Fleeing a volcanic eruption
No circumnavigation is complete without a collection of ‘one-up’ stories to tell. We’ve hiked dormant volcanoes and looked into the fiery pit of active ones during the decade we’ve been cruising. Recounting these unique experiences has been fun. Thanks to La Soufrière in St Vincent, we can now add ‘running from an erupting volcano’ to our collection of tales. This is how my husband, John, and I experienced the event while cruising in the Grenadines with our two children Braca (nine) and Ayla (seven) onboard Atea, our 50ft Ganley cutter-rigged sloop.
No longer is cruising the Caribbean defined by a carefree transit through a succession of islands. In 2020 it became all about negotiating the complexities of Covid regulations which require an in-depth understanding of the current policies of each country and result in less movement within the archipelago. The French islands are currently closed
