Location: Des Saintes
Bright and early, the skipper of Ocean Star, Marvin Rose, woke up his fellow sailors with a nice playlist of relaxing music from his iPod that blew through the speakers of the beautiful ship that is Ocean Star. We needed everyone to be alert for our wonderful, exciting oceanography class. After class, the brains of our sailors were exhausted from all that information from our lecture. After we successfully pulled up the anchor led by our wonderful scientist and shark fanatic Christy. We motored our sailboat to Les Saints, which was a 10-minute ride. After our long-awaited shore time, all the sailors went to explore Les Saints. Marvin, Rob, and Mike used the time to find a beach. We asked several local French people where the ocean was without much luck and then decided to find the beach on our own. We hiked up the island and came down on an abandoned runway for airplanes. In the distance, we heard waves crashing and saw a beautiful beach with nice waves and not a single person in sight. After our shore time, all the sailors returned to the boat for a relaxing afternoon. Our second mate, the Awesome Charming Matt Johnson, had the brilliant idea of snorkeling a ferry wreck that was about 25 feet deep; we took turns swimming through the ferry cockpit and windows, at least the few who were brave enough to try the daunting task of holding your breath for a good 45 seconds. We came back to the boat to lasagna cooked by our wonderful chefs, Serena and Lindsey. On top of the action-packed day, we had another wonderful class full of information, followed by a quiz that everyone passed.