Day 217, Saturday, January 25th

Day 217, Saturday, January 25th
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Dawson on beach

Tracy and Julie on hike

The morning starts with Dawson listening to weather reports and Julie doing her French lessons on Rosetta stone.  After the morning activity program, we chat to JaLu and decide to go for a hike and explore all the trails on Stocking Island.  Before we kayak over to the beach we close everything up as it looks like rain.  Dawson goes to get the rug he had put on deck yesterday to dry out (after a spill) and it is not there.  Oops, high winds sent it overboard.  We look around but we are anchored in about 16 feet of water and don’t see it anywhere.  Oh well, off we go back up to the monument the ladies had hiked to the previous day.  It is a beautiful view from here and reassures us we are anchored nicely. 

Dennis on hike at top of monument hill

View of anchorage, we are in middle

 It always seems like we are anchored on top of our neighbours but from up above we can clearly see that we have spaced ourselves out just about perfectly.   After reaching the monument we head down the hill on the Ocean (Exuma Sound) side of the island and walk along the beach for quite a long way.  We can feel it in our legs.  Along the way we meet Don and Linda who we keep bumping into.  They are originally from Michigan but now spend the warmer months living on Manitoulin Island which is neat as it is our back yard.  Most likely we will cross paths back in Canada at some point.

View of beach-Stocking Island

We head to the mothership for a quick lunch as we want to join in on Bridge lessons at 2:00.  It is time we learn to play properly rather than our sloppy kitchen bridge with a convention from our university days, that we kind of follow.  The lesson is great as they are teaching the American standard bidding.  They last only about an hour or so as it starts to rain and we are outside.  We enjoy our new knowledge and will return on Monday for lesson 2. 

We check the internet and find out Ross has also won the 1500 meter race today and again broke the meet and field records.  Way to go Ross.  Makes Julie homesick to be missing the races, but most likely would not have made this race.  We will be back for the outdoor season!

We spend a quiet evening chatting about life.  One thing with this trip, we have intentionally not planned our adventure so there are many conversations on unfolding what the adventure looks like.  More and more our conversations are turning to what does our future look like?  How long do we want to sail? How far do we want to go?  When do we turn around? Do we leave the boat south and return in the near future, or take the boat back to Canada?  What do we want to do after sailing?  Return to work?  Where do we want to live?  Etc. etc.  We have always had the dream of going sailing and never put too much thought into life after sailing.  It makes for interesting conversation.   Stay tuned as life unfolds.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson