It looks like the winds won’t be
dying down until at least Monday next week, so we are here at Great St. James
Island still working on boat projects (Daniel) and reading and swimming
(Carla). When Daniel gets done with his
project for the day, then he will put on his swim fins and go snorkeling with
me. We did that yesterday along with
each of us taking the kayak out for a little spin around the harbor.
Late in the afternoon, a group of
about 6 tiny sailboats came across from a nearby island’s yacht club with a
young child on each. It was so neat
watching these little ones and their sailboats.
There was a grown up in a power boat yelling directions at them and the
kids were handling all the moves perfectly.
After a hard day working,
swimming and snorkeling we take our reclining chairs and head to the bow of the
boat. We will sit there, enjoying the
harbor, watching other boats coming and go and just generally taking it
easy. (Yes, we have been taking it easy
most of the day, but this is different.)
The harbor is full with about 25 boats – different kinds, sizes, shapes
and we enjoy looking at them. We will
take the binoculars with us sometimes so we can get a close look at the boats
on the other side of the harbor. As we
were looking around last night, there was a guy on the bow of his boat playing
a saxophone. Just standing there,
playing for the whole harbor. That was
neat. I was looking through the
binoculars at him and Daniel said, what’s that other guy doing on the bow of
his boat? So I move the binoculars to
see what he is doing…I focus the binoculars really well so I can get a good
look – I hit Daniel. The guy was “whizzing”
off the front of this boat.
Seriously? In daylight – off the
front of your boat? Oh brother! So glad I focused in on that!
We were watching the sunset when a boat came
into the harbor that had 5 German speaking people on board. It looked like a captain and 4
teenagers. We watched as they all
quickly hopped in the water and swam to shore.
One kid was about halfway there, stopped, looked at us and gave us the
biggest smile and wave. Then he took off
swimming with the others.
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