Sea Vagrents
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 27 Apr 2012 12:30
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FRIDAY 27th APRIL
2012,
Yesterday, we sailed with the headsail only upwind
from " Deadmans Bay " to Cooper Island where
we picked up a mooring ball outside the Beach
Resort,
The place had at least 45 sail boats of one kind or
another moored in the bad.plus a couple of motor launches,
The weather was glorious and the sea was full of
bodies with bronze tans and tiny Bikini's
Aileeen, Vera & Denis went ashore to the beach
for some swimming while skipper went to " Cistern Rock"
for some snorkling, Its wonderfullto glide out over
the rocks and boulders and suddenly find one is floating
out over a 200 foot drop in deep blue water
with thousands of fish gently swishing back and forth with the
currents,
yesterday we saw some huge Sting Rays, Barricuda,
amond all the other sea dwellers,
Later we returned to the boat, showered , dolled
ourselfs up and went to the beach club for some " Pain Killers"
( a kind of Rum Cocktail ) a cpuple of these and
there is no pain..........
Talking about pain,, Denis remarked to
Skipper at the beach club, " Stephen, you dont seem to be limping
anymore"
Thats true, " I do not have a problem with my
hip anymore" replied Skipper, The interesting thing here is that
skipper
not only had a painfull problem with his hip when
walking , but the pain moved around his right hip at night in bed,
especially when lying on his left side.
The medical advice was " A new hip " would be
necessary when you come home, ohhh my god, what a dose ,
This problem went on for a couple of years,
sometimes skipper would take powerfull painkillers ( not the alcohol
type )
to kill the pain, which seemed to be more acute at
times,
Then in 2010 when we were in Maritius, ( all
this is well documented in the Blog at the time ) had to have
an operation after he collapsed with the pain from
a " Kidney Stone "
However, however, however, Skipper has never
had a limp again and the pain in the hip has never returned,
Sooooo much for medical advice, A new
Hip, ha,ha, could you imagine ,
Later we returned to " A lady and skipper cooked
dinner consisting of Pork crocquets, chineese sausages, prawns,
with rice and noodles, all in a spaghetti sauce,
plus a couple of " A Lady Gin specials "
Interesting day......... new hips and all
that.......
Signed :- Stephen Hyde ( Skipper
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