Rhum Depaz

Afternoon visit to the Depaz Distillery in St. Pierre, Martinique at the base of the Mt Pelee volcano. Built four years after the 1902 eruption that destroyed the town and killed 30,000 people. Initially water was used to power the cane presses. Now steam is used and they burn the leftover cane stalks to boil the water, and recover the ash from the fire to fertilize the plantations! Rhum Agricole is made directly from pressed sugar cane, not molasses, so it is stronger and cleaner-tasting. Delicious!

Scenes from Martinique

Mango Bay Martinique

At Mango Bay, the bar with Internet in Le Marin, Martinique. Forgot the computer with the photos from the last few days, so we took a picture of us. Cheers!!

Arrival in Martinique

After a long night crossing from the northern tip of Dominica
southbound across the channel to the southern tip of Martinique...
Everything went well and we had some great sailing and some smooth
motoring in the lees.

By the end of my sunrise watch I was bored and figured out I could
take photos through the binoculars!