Antigua is a very beautiful and pretty island but unfortunately it is in the grip of quite a severe drought at the moment. I'm sure that the TV viewers back home have been appreciating the wonderfully clear waters and white beaches that Antigua offers travelers who come here to holiday.

Apart from all the yachting and sailing, the clear waters are known to offer great fishing opportunities and we've been out there on the island once at night fishing for snoek and springer off the beach. Boeta and I caught about seven fish each with Dipps catching the biggest snoek of about eight pounds.

We're obviously looking forward to improving our fishing stats before we leave the island for Jamaica and Boeta is working on another venue to improve his beach fishing.

We are very fortunate to be staying at the Jolly Beach Resort which is a complex situated on this long, curved sandy beach where I've spent a lot of time since we've been here.

It was enjoyable last week to watch Mark Boucher and Neil McKenzie being rescued by the hotel boat when they got blown out to sea windsurfing and could not sail back to the shore. Both of them fancied themselves in the breeze and the sea and the local trade winds humbled them.

We've also had a bit of fun on the floating trampoline sitting about 30 meters off shore. It's been very popular with the Ford and Van Zyl children who spend hours out there trying to bounce each other off.

Sun tanning has definitely been the order of the day for most of the guys while the wives and girlfriends spend most of their time working on their tans.

The afternoons of Tuesday and Wednesday before the Test match were spent on the beach but the guys were banned from tanning on Thursday so as not to be drained by the sun for the fourth Test match.

The Antigua Recreation Ground here in St Johns is quite a smallish field with by far the best outfield we've had in the West Indies. You get the feeling with the upright stands close to the field that the crowds are right on top of you.

This is the venue of the fastest test century that was scored by the great Sir Vivian Richards. It is also the venue where Brian Lara scored his 375 against England back in 1994, the highest Test score and surpassing Sir Garfield Sobers' 365.

There are two large sets of speakers at either end of the ground and they play throughout the day in between overs, at lunch and also at tea time. Then they go on after the day's play well into the evening playing their favourite Caribbean, Calypso and soca tunes.

It's also been great to have all the SA support over here, especially during the Barbados and this Antigua Test match, these two proving to be vital in the context of the series.

Well it's time to pad up now, so until another time this is Lance Klusener signing off for CricInfo.

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