Road Bay, Anguilla

gelatin silver print

Gelatin silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; man sculling rowboat in foreground; schooner WARSPITE underway; Road Bay; Anguilla; taken on a "triangular mini cruise" which included Anguilla, St. Barthelemy and St. Martin on board Grand Banks 42 SANS TERRE; fall 1969; handwritten on reverse "2/31A"; typewritten label glued on back of print reads "#9 - Road Bay, Aguilla (SIC). The schooner Warspite awaiting a cargo off/ her home port of Sandy Ground Village, Anguilla. The principal export/ is salt from the pond behind the beach. In the "salt picking" season,/ when the crop is shipped, a dozen schooners may lie in the roadstead,/ while small boats scull out the salt in sacks."; for other views of the "triangular mini cruise" see 1996.31.5144 - 1996.31.5157. Ref: Carleton Mitchell's notes in the C. Mitchell manuscript collection; G.W. Blunt White Library; "Triangular Mini-Cruise", by Carleton Mitchell; "Yachting"; Nov. 1970.