Cooper woke up wanting to go to the beach. I told him as
soon as he finished his school-work.
While Cooper and Susan did school I blew up the inflatable kayak and had
a nice paddle around some of the islands here.
The water is clear and 68, so just warm enough for a quick swim. It’s around 85 during the day, and the sun is
pretty intense as we still are working on tanning up. As soon as Cooper
finished school he wanted to go to the beach.
I pointed to the kayak and told him to get his lifejacket. Without hesitation he donned it and climbed
down into the kayak and asked for the paddle.
I gave it to him, untied the painter and he just took off for the beach
alone and full of confidence. Grandma
and Grandpa would be so proud of the kayak skills they have taught Cooper. We watched from Wiz while Cooper landed the
kayak between some rocks and pulled it well up on shore. When we looked a little later Cooper had
climbed up the rocks and into a cave on the hillside. We knew he hadn’t taken any sandals so we ran
some in with the dingy and played on the beach for a while. We had some hermit crab races and Cooper’s
crab was the undisputed champ.
Later we took the dingy exploring and found Gypsy Wind in
el-burrough cove. They had seen a whale
shark around their boat that morning and we were green with envy. That afternoon they moved over next to us and
we had beers at their boat on the way in to the beach for diner. We were planningto leave before dark but that
didn’t happen and it was full dark before we loaded into the dingys to go
ashore. On the way in shining
flashlights ahead of the boats showed many fish jumping. This was pretty cool until one of them jumped
into our boat and (some of us) freaked out a little… It turned out to be a 8
inch long needlefish. Looked like it
could have actually given someone a fair poke.
Dinner was ok but the company was exceptional. It was fun to catch up on what we both knew
of all of our mutual cruising friends.
What a great “first-day” of our cruise!
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