We left Little Harbor an hour ago and are already
anchoring; now that's the kind of island hopping I like!
Not sure where we are, but Gary and Elliott want to visit here to
snorkel a reef.
Yesterday, our social director Elliott hooked us up
with an English family. We talked to
them briefly at Pete's Pub and when he and his dad made arrangements to visit
the blue hole, they asked them to go along.
They were joined by the dad and the two daughters.
Even though they did not find the blue hole,
they had a blast, even though a shoe was lost to the sucking sands. They swam, talked (Gary said the water was
shallow and it felt like they were in a hot tub just having a chat), and found
interesting animals, including a crab that looked like a transformer. It started out looking like a shell, but the
arms folded out and down to become a crab.
The bottom reminded me of a horseshoe crab.
They were gone a long time, but it seemed to be time
well spent. Everyone came back with
stories and smiles on their faces. The
whole family came over later after dinner to visit. So we formally met Matthew, Pippa, Maddie,
and Izzy. When I couldn't quite hear
Izzy's name, I asked her to spell it.
"I, Zed, Zed, Y."
British, for sure.
They were lovely and Elliott challenged them to a
game of Carcassone, Matthew had actually visited the real Carcassone before. The family is from Surrey, about 90 minutes outside
London. Pippa is a surgeon and we never
got around to asking Matthew what he did.
They were good fun and the girls, 16 and 14, were fun and fearless. They've been sailing all their lives and most
of their holidays have been spent on boat, their own or charters. Maddie said it wasn't until she was 12 that
she realized that not everyone went on a boat every holiday. They left the marina a few minutes before us and we hope
to run into them again before they go home on Friday.
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