…from Island Harbour, and faced the tough Atlantic tides off the northeastern part of the island, before making the choppy journey past the cliffs of Harbour Ridge. Then it reached the treacherous seas off Captain’s Bay, only to drift into the narrow passage between Windward Point, the easternmost part of the island, and Scrub Island, a midseized cay to the east that still housed a dirt strip built as part of that obscure episode of World War II–the Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement.”
This is what Captain’s Bay would have looked like, bar the electricity poles, of course
To the west, the easternmost point of Anguilla would have looked like this
While to the east Scrub island would have cut this familiar shape in the distance
And had they alighted (which they didn’t), they would have seen the remains of this dust airstrip, except the runway wouldn’t have been blocked with stones–that didn’t happen until the 1980s, when the DEA took the islet by storm
MEMO FROM LA–LA LAND 