-Sun glasses, hats and solar creams ( recommended total sunblock) are strongly advised to protect you especially the first days.
-Clothes, plan light, but all the same long sleeves and pants especially to protect you from sunburns, for evening a sweat-shirt can be useful for the most sensitive to cold.
-If you follow a treatment, do not forget your personal medicines because it will be difficult to you to find the equivalent in English îslands.
-A food list will be proposed to you in the cases in compléte formula on board. To indicate to us if it is the case allergies and / or medical treatment.
-No particular vaccination is to be foreseen.
-An anti-mosquito lotion can be useful for you for the visits on the ground in the evening, or in the visits of the mangrove swamp on certain islands.
- Hand towels and the bedding are supplied but not bath towels. Think of the pareos which dry more easily
-It is deeply recommended to see imperative to take flexible bags instead of stiff suitcases. Easier to store in the boat once space!!
-American Dollars and Euro for your personal expenses.
The classic mobile phone passes very even taken out of Martinique, it depends on your operator. Mobile phones "tri"-bands with an extension world pass everywhere. Otherwise there is a possibility of phoning since phone boxes and the acces with Internet since cybercafes is easy on islands..
LESSER ANTILLES
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[ t1 ] Air temperature [/t1]
The archipelago is under the influence of Tropics. The temperatures are thus very pleasant all year long, between 25 ° at night and 33 ° (Celsius) in the daytime. We feel a small annual variation between winter and the summer which is of the order of 5 °.
[ T1 ] Temperature of the water: [/t1]
Considering the pleasant and constant temperature of the air(sight). The temperature of the water is situated between 26 ° and 30 ° and never comes down below 25 °, even during winter if we can call it like that!
Rate of hygrometry of the air: 70 %.
[ T1 ] The seasons: [/t1]
We can define two big seasons with more or less marked transitions:
- From July till October, it is the said season of " the wintering " accompanied with period of frequent and intense rains. Hurricanes can form on the Atlantic Ocean and their trajectory can pass on the islands of the Antilles, these phenomenon of an extrème violence concern mostly the half North of the West Indian bow, Martinique being situated in the center of the bow she can be also concerned by one of these phenomenon.with a preference for September.
- From January till April, the season is called here "Fast", the anticyclone of the Azores moves towards South.
The trade wind is regular and fresher. The air is drier and showers are little frequent.
[ T1 ] trade winds: [/t1]
The whole zone is subjected to the regime of the trade winds which blow regularly between 15 and 20 knots and begin to weaken in May June, 10 in 15 knots.
[ T1 ] The used currencies: [/t1] The euro: official currency of the French islands is now accepted everywhere. U.S.$.: is also accepted everywhere.
E.C. (East Caribbean Dollar (XCD)) official currency on the former British islands. It is indexed on $ U.S., with a fixed rate: officially 1 U.S. E.C. the usual court is often close to 2,5 E.C. for 1$ U.S.. = 2,68 The West Indian Guilder: official currencyof the Dutch islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and half of St Martin where U.S. and the euro are kings).
[ T1 ] The jet lag: [/t1]
The hour is constant in Lessers Antilles.We are at Universal Time less 4 am, that is a gap for France and a big part of the C.E.E. from less 5 hours to winter and less 6 hours in summer.
[ T1 ] Formalities [/t1]
You have to present a passport of current validity for the non-European islands, in Grenadines Clearances are to be settled to customs, consider approximately 100€ a person on casch.
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