The next day Nick and I sailed to Pidgeon Island, a little islet 500 m off Guadaloupes west coast – proportedly one of Jacques Cousteau’s favourite dive sites and now a Park Natural that bears his name. W picked up a mooring and clambered into our dive gear keen to see the result of the long term fishing and anchoring prohibition. A profound number of friendly fish were right under the keel in contrast to the desert like point we dived at Deshays. Our free diving is getting better all the time, 20 meters down we glided up to big snapper, bright reef fish and delicate soft corals. Nick nearly spat his snorkel when he came across a life size torso of Jacques giving the OK sign. The dive was great but I think we both preferred the dive we had the next day half way over to the Saints islands. In the middle of the deep passage rises a sharp spine of volcanic rock to 45 feet. It’sonly about 100 metres long but its flanks fall steeply to 400 feet depth. The visibility made objects at 100 feet look navy blue but still easily discernable. We didn’t see any big pelagic’s though, just a few rainbow runners and horse-eyed jacks.