Firstly aplogises for lack of blog yesterday but Team Gertha was
somewhat distracted. Intially we better fill you in on the events of
yesterday.The day started off with a snorkel near 'The Caves' and a
amazing encounter with a Turtle, Lucy and I both managed to follow,
him/her for some time. Truly fantastic little thing. Then saddly we left
squirt behind and headed to Tortolla for the big shop. And what a big
shop, four trolleys later and the amusement of the locals.We started
filling the cupboards and hatches. However the big problem was 20
packets of chocolate Bimbo cookiees and were the heck to put them. Next
the proposition............ two friendly brits thought we did not quite
have enough on board and wondered if we could return their hire life
raft to the UK, as they had become acustomed to the mental horizontal
lifestyle of the caribean and did not want to return to england.After
the deliberation of the possible contents of the raft and whether
immigration and customs would have a problem back in the Uk and perphaps
the subtle help of a bottle of champagne and a few quid, the liferaft
was strapped aboard......Therefore only one thing left to do ,was to
make the most of the last night ashore and Village Cay Marina
Restaurant. Beautiful grub for all and the amusing entertainment of a
local playing a guitar with his teeth and some outstanding dancing from
a few yanks. Sensibly we decided to retreat to the boat as we had to
set sail for the Azores tomorrow but that did not quite happen. Not
blaming anyone Miss Wilson but we managed to end up drinking Wine with a
Yank named David and him telling us about how we found Antigua race week
the most unorganised event ever as "They had no were no put the dingy,
so we put it in the middle of the harbour on 400metres of anchor chain"
but he did come fourth well maybe third or maybe fourth.The highlight of
the night however was the comment "my wife wanted to put the dolphin in
a pot" oh the americans.....!!! So eventually we all retreated to bed
and started to get ready to head out into the big blue. After a bit more
shopping we got sail about 2pm today and headed North East.Land is just
diaspearing into the distance as we start to consider what's for tea.
So as some famous rabbit once said
That's all folks!!
Kate and Team Mentally Horizonatlly ; )
