12:29.021N  61:28.904W

We went ashore into Hillsborough, an enchanting small town. The ferry had just arrived so there was much bustle.

It has lovely colonial buildings but I was taken by the little places, the colourful shops and occasional tiny wooden house between the larger buildings.

   

We found ourselves a juice bar and settled for a chat and some smoothies. Spike had smuggled his way ashore agin - keen to see Franz and Norma, and was delighted to find himself in a bar, however his wine tasting experience seemed to have given him the wrong ideas.

       

We anchored off a little Island in the bay called Sandy island. It is literally just a curve of sand, a reef and some palm trees.

We took the dinghies ashore to snorkel, and saw the most fantastic underwater world, filled with bright red barrel sponges, stag horn coral, four eyed and banded butterfly fish, rainbow parrotfish, blue headed wrasse and bright blue chromis to name but a few! There were three pelicans living by the island, wonderful to watch their ungainly diving for fish and their majestic paddling along on the surface. The Island is a narrow strip, maybe 30 feet wide, that you can see the bay behind it from on deck. I caught this schooner sailing past in the evening light.