Fancy meeting you here
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Sun 1 Jun 2014 00:16
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So you sail round the world, and get to know all sorts of interesting
people, and then it ends and you go your own separate ways. But how often
do your paths cross again? Probably many more times than you realize
because you pass by like “ships in the night”, neither party being aware of the
proximity. Then one of those crossings results in a chance meeting and for
a while the world seems like a smaller place.
OK, so Anastasia is fairly prominent in an anchorage, but even so we were
surprised to get the following email from Britt. “In Puerto Rico, going out on a boat with some friends we met, and
leaving the marina, who do we pass?? Anastasia!!!! Looking as good as ever!! Are
you guys in Salinas?!?!” (Britt
is an exclamation mark kind of gal.) Now Britt’s last Facebook post was
from Fiji, so it was a bit of a surprise that she was now in Salinas, Puerto
Rico, which is quite frankly more of a village than a town.
This morning Andrea and I were
discussing where to stop next. Should we go to Salinas? I thought
perhaps we could skip it and go a bit further. On the other hand our
cruising guide told us there was a sailmaker in Salinas who could fix the
trampoline. (I nearly fell through it when it ripped as we were anchoring
in Muertos.) Andrea said I should make my mind up. The trampoline
won out and so we headed for Salinas.
Turns out there is no sailmaker in
Salinas any more and we were just contemplating what a waste of time the stop in
Salinas was, when Britt’s email popped up. We hopped into the dinghy and
headed out to join her and some friends on a boat out at Cano Matias, the local
swimming hole. It was a lot of fun. Still, what a remarkable coincidence.
 Andrea and Britt on Cayos de Pa’ Jaros
 The temporary repair on the trampoline
(that will have to last a while longer now)
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