Sailing around the World.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 19 Jan 2011 16:22
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TUESDAY 18th JANUARY
2011
It was " A Lady " turn to do Radio call today, but
had to hand over to " Eowyn " as we were too far away from the fleet and
also
behind St. Helena which made reception very
poor.
We were so looking forward to going ashore again
today, our brief visit last night gave us a great feeling about the
place,
The St Helena supply ship was in harbour when we
arrived and all lit up like a Christmas tree.
this always helps the activity in town , when the
ship is here. and they carry the pasangers to and from Cape Town
as it is the only connection with the
Island..
09.30hrs , we went ashore and headed up to the
tourest office and then the bank, ( no ATM's here.) and their £ here has the
same
value as the £ Stg. We hired a Honda 4x4 at £20 per
day was good value.
However, before we went touring the Island, Emily,
Aileen & Skipper climbed " Jacobs Ladder " This is an amazing set of
steps ever.
consisting of 699 steps in a straight flight , no
landings of any description , all the way from
Jamestown up to the fort on the hill over looking
the harbour / Bay. Impressed ! 602 feet high. Emily walked back
down tha 699 steps again
where she met Sham and then drove the car up to
collect A & S up at the fort.
Once we had familierised ourselves with this
facinating place, we headed off in the Car, Up over the top of the Island and
stopped a
few times to admire the lush green interior. That
plant called " Formiums" are everywhere here, and plenty of flowers and
colour,
including some spectacular birds.
The vies of the sea every where were great.
breathtaking.
We headed down to Sandy Beach on the SE side of the
Island and passed " Lots Wife " and the salt stone on the way,
you must remember that storey from school days,
Well, here they are,
The beach was rough enough, not a place for
swimming, but we explored the kiln and the sreams, which had lots of " Guppies "
and tad poles, plus many other types of little
fish,
The landscape down here by the sea was almost lunar
in looks, so different to the lush interior. Nothing grownig
anywhere
except where the little river ran down to the sea,
A little oasis in the middle of a desert.
We dropped Sham and Emily back to the town, and
Skipper and Aileen drove off to explore the " Blue Hills "
Ohhhhh, so hilly, green and dramatic, the corkscrew
roads winding up and down the side of the hills were chilling
stuff.
one would not want to be suffering " vertigo "
There are plenty of Cocks wandering wild here on
this island also, just like all the Islands across the pacific.
but, but, we hardly saw a dog anywhere , Sham said
he saw one. and we saw a sign " beware of Dog " somewhere
else,
but no dogs,
When we returned to Jamestown in late afternoon, we
found that " Lady Eve V1 " had arrived, and we met Deiter and their
gang
along with the crew from " Wild Tigres " in the
Hotel and of course had a few scoops there before going onto an Oriental
restauranr for dinner. The food was excellent
, and we had the full works, plus plenty of fine wine.
Later, we rerturned to " A Lady " and after a brief
chat, all went to the scratchers as we have booked visits tomorrow to
" Napolean's
places and golf afterwards. so an early start tomorrow.
Thats all.
Signed :- Stephen Hyde ...
( Skipper)
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