Jan 24, 2010

Hatchet Bay to Governors Harbour

After spending some time exploring the area of hatchet bay Jane and I returned to the boat to do some laundry in our bucket washing machine and take care of other boat tasks. Willi, Patricia and Liz explored more of the island and returned to the boat at 3.30 with rum, wine and a bag of cooked crab claws. When the gang returned to the boat Patricia and Liz decided to have a swim off the boat. Suddenly Patricia called out that she had been stung by a jelly fish and the whole crew went into medical mode. Jane got the medical book out and within a short time Patricia had consumed Advil, Benadryl, Mojitos, Wine, had been sprayed with vinegar and other anti itch and anti everything else that could be dreamed up. Oh by the way her arm was red and swollen. The captain excused her from galley work for the evening.
The crew prepared an exquisite meal of cracked stone crab claws with freshly baked brown bread( Captains creation) followed by New York strip steaks and salad. For desert we had chocolate rum cake. Life is not all bad on board the mother ship KINVARA.

We dropped our mooring this morning at 10am and headed out to rough seas and high winds. 3 hours later we dropped anchor in Governors Harbour. It was not a pleasant crossing and we were all happy to be in the shelter of the harbour. Dropped anchor and had lunch. After lunch we realized we were drifting and decided to re-position the anchor. We almost had it back on board when we snagged an underwater cable and we could not free ourselves. Willi and I deployed our secondary anchor and we will wait until the morning to find a diver to free us. Once again the crew prepared another delicious meal and copious amounts of wine were consumed.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh dear - sounds like you're having some trouble - I hope my Mum's arm is feeling better!
F.x