Day 21, Saturday July 13

Little Jamaica

We wake up to a hot beautiful day in Matheson.  First thing after coffee and breakfast is a swim and yoga on the rocks.  Patti, Karen, Beth, and Colleen join Julie for the exercise.  We are pleased at the amount of exercise we continue to get.  It really is a physical existence. 

Calm water for dinghy ride

Dawson and Al busy themselves with an island explore and then scrub the decks.  There are tons of bugs.  Especially some white bugs or skeletons everywhere.

Lunch at the beach

The group decides a dinghy ride and picnic lunch is in order.   We dinghy over to Little Jamaica, Fort Lacloche and then the island to the west of Matheson for lunch.  The little island we lunch on must have regular visitors as there are swings on the beach and a nail polish station set up.  Mark and Hiney Trevisiol have also joined our group for the day.  The women all go for a swim after lunch and decide to swim back to the mother ship(s) which is about 600 meters away.  The water is shallow and warms up like a bathtub in a few spots (and not because someone peed in the water). 

Fort Lacloche



Ladies swim back to the mother ship



The guys pack up and head to Croker on the dinghies.  The water is so still that Croker seems close although it is a bit of a ways away.  Other friends are anchored at East Croker but they are not at their boats unfortunately.  We all reconvene around 5 at the mother ships. 

Karen and Colleen (birthday girls)

Julie has invited everyone for dessert as it is Karen’s birthday tomorrow and Colleen’s birthday on Tuesday.  Julie managed to bake a cake while everyone was swimming as a surprise for the birthday boaters.

Beth and Karen post Grey goose martinis

Mark and Hiney depart around 6 o’clock leaving 10 persons to crowd into our cockpit for cake.  Cake is served at around 9 and the mosquitoes are fierce forcing us to zip everything up and it is very very warm with 10 people crowded in.  The cake is a hit, followed by charades for the fun people.  Karen and Beth have had a few Grey Goose martinis so are enthusiastic about the charades unlike a few of the guys.  After Beth almost heads down the companionway head first we call it a night and hit the sack.

Cheers Julie and Dawson.