We are delighted to have some many guests this summer; especially that some have come back for the second time.  Here is an unexpected guest that wasn’t quite so welcome.......

I was a little taken aback to open the bathroom door and find this chap swinging before my eyes.  He was about 2 ½ inches long and stayed there quite happily while I looked at him.  We have no idea if he was poisonous or in any way a threat to our wellbeing but we plonked him in a box and let him go back onto dry land.

Fortunately neither of us are bothered by spiders so this was interesting more than anything else.  If you don’t like spiders and are planning to visit us don’t let this put you off, it is the one and only time in our sailing travels we have ever encountered such a creature so we are not expecting to see anything similar any time soon.