Joint cruising blog
Wildfox
Anthony Swanston
Mon 21 Nov 2016 01:29
ANTHONY. It is interesting. Alex is the first person I have ever sailed
with who does not get in the way. She cooks and cleans without being
asked. She learns knots and doesn’t
complain. Much. For example she thinks that cooking and
cleaning makes her sound like a housewife. It is a pity she is not staying.
We are just
hopping from one anchorage to another.
Sometimes three in a day so too many to put in positions. I have done
some of the anchorages before but it is so much more fun with a little friend.
We explore some good hongs and one great cave about 300 metres long. To get into the last cavern we had to lie on
our backs and pull the dinghy in hand over hand on the low rock roof. Spooky at
the end! Alex is giving the sights scores out of 10.
ALEX. The
cave definitely earns a nine and the only reason why it did not reach high
score was the fact that as soon as we got near the entrance a tourist boat spat
out about hundred canoes which were then paddling around us. However, I have to
admit (and even Captain Anthony agreed with me in a weak moment) that in the
end I was glad that we had some company since it is huge and pitch-dark in
there.
Thanks to a few tips and tricks from a
de-escalation course, which a friend, who is a nurse at a psychiatric hospital
shared with me, Anthony and I get along. Also the fact that we both had blocked
ears for the first week after I came aboard helped the bonding process.
Eventually, after our arrival in Phuket we went to the hospital to see an ENT
physician, who took care of that with a teeny-weeny vacuum cleaner. Now I can
listen much better to all the things and words he is trying to teach me. Since
I have never been on a boat before all the nautical terms are new to me, but
there’s one new word in my English vocabulary that I picked up so far. ‘Oxymoron’, e. g. empathic Wild Fox-captain.
