All Change
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Sun 1 Apr 2007 13:13
|
Sunday April 1st,2007, Isla
Mujeres, Mexico.
It is dawn, and all the
wind generators are whistling and whirring on the boats around us in the half
light. In a few hours Otti, Mimi, and I leave the boat. We feel
a combination of real sadness, and excitement, to be seeing home. To
me it feels like a shocking upheaval, to leave life afloat, the sea, Chris, and
my trusty solid boat, Sarah Grace. I will be all at sea on land.
Chris will be sailing on
with friends Iain and Karen, back across the Atlantic, whilst the girls go to
school back in England.
Chris is having clock
trouble. We have had so many clock changes coming west, added to which
there have been two summer time adjustments, one in Cuba, and one last
night. This has left him incapable of working out what time it is.
He set the alarm last night for an hour early, and is now fast asleep
again...! We have given up on local time for organizing radio liasons, and
use zulu, or GMT, as we kept missing people, as we were on the wrong time
aboard.
Things I will not miss will
be: tasting of salt ALL the time; cups, glasses, and objects
generally taking off with a life of their own spilling stuff everywhere;
being hurtled around; handwashing; handpumping loos; and
seasickness..............
Mexico has been
magical: not the least the food has been met with real enthusiasm by the
girls. Caribbean curries have not been up their street. The birds
sound like hungry guinea pigs. The folk, mostly Mayan, are very
friendly. We have spent three or four days with a hire care zooming around
the Yucatan, looking at Mayon ruins at Tulum and Chitzen Itsa.
AMAZING. We all swam in a cenote, a large hole filled with clear
underground river water, about fifty feet below the surface of the
ground. It was filled with six inch black catfish with no eyes all
swimming around.
Aaaarrrrrrgghhh! Back
to mud and motorways and newspapers!!!
Hilarious comment of the
month, emailed by Iain from England, soon to be crew on Sarah
Grace: 'Do you really want a Sunday paper as it will be out of date
when we see you?'.
The last newspaper we saw
in English was in February, dated 11th January, and it was an amazing
read..........8-)
Otti says: I AM GOING HOME !!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS
HA HA HA CANT
WAIT TILL WE SEE ALL YOU LANDiE PEOPLE!!!
Very upset and sad about saying bye bye to dad for so
long *sad face* :-( .
Mimi: No comment
required.
|