" A LADY TRIP " Sailing around the world , ( presently in the Marquesses, South pacific )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 28 Mar 2010 18:22
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SATURDAY 27th MARCH
2010
07.30hrs Aileen & Stephen woke up in total
sunshine in the Hotel,
We met Jimmy and Anna from " Ocean Jasper " for a
lovely breckfast, the views from the hotel are just
spectacular,
It would resemble a more rugged " west cork "
scene, except a lot warmer,
0930hrs, We went to the Pual Gauguin museum, This
famous french artist , like so many others, was shunned during his
lifetime
and led a fairly lonely life out here in the the
French Polynesian Islands, and eventually died on this Island, " Hiva Oa
"
Graham, from " eowyn " went diving for our lost
fortress anchor, He is very experienced and spent 1.5hrs on the
bottom,
but the visability was very poor and failed to find
the anchor.
Gerard, from " Brown Eyed Girl " tried again later
to locate the missing anchor, but gave up in panic, when a shark started
to bite his flipper,
These Islands are famous for all the different
types of " Sharks " that are around here, Appearently , some huge ones at
that.
That did not put us off having a few swims every
day, the temperature of the water is nearly as warm as the air
temperature.
There are still a few yachts to arrieve, they are
expected overnight.
A lovely day in all, apart from a few sparks flying
between Aileen and Fats for a couple of minutes,
19.00hrs Our guests for dinner arrieved from
" Eowin"
The three lads, Graham, John , Mike , are
from the U K, and gave us great assistance with the computers leaving the
Galapagos,
Dinner, ( by the Skipper ) consisted of :-
starters, Prawn salad, and local Grape fruit,
mains,
Roast belly Pork, with carrotts, apple sauce, Mash potatoes, and roast
spuds,
desert, Selection of Ice creams,
23.00hrs, We all vanished to the
scratchers,
thats it for today,
Signed, Stephen Hyde, (
skipper )
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