Water’s Edge

I’m pretty sure we did some more work on the boat in the morning. In fact, I know we did. I just can’t remember quite what at this point.

Nevertheless, once we’d finished, we packed some food and drink and went for a walk. We headed south passing through the Bel Air Plantation. The road soon turned into a track as we climbed up the peninsular it is on. After a few wrong turns we found a path leading down to the next beach along.

From the top of the hill we could see the beach and in the distance, the beach called La Sagesse which we had visited at the end of our round island tour way back. The beach was deserted. We had it to ourselves. There were some footprints of someone who must have walked the beach before us but no sign of them. Best of all, there was no washed up trash. Presumably the shape of the surrounding coast prevented trash from washing in so here was a lovely pristine beach.

Not that we stayed there. We’re not really beach people but we do like walking them. At the other end of the beach we found the trail which led to La Sagesse.

La Sagesse wasn’t deserted but neither was it far from it. We walked the length of this beach and found a place on some rocks to eat the samosas and fruit we had bought and drink our drinks. Once we’d had our mini picnic we turned about and headed back the way we came.

As we passed through the Bel Air Plantation, we stopped at the ‘Water’s Edge’ restaurant to check out what they had going. We learned that that had a live band starting at 12.

Back on the boat we found it was still only 11am and was now quite hot. (I’ve remembered what we did in the morning. I fixed a flap under the hull, cleared the paint from the hull sieves that protect the inputs to the A/Cs, sanded and painted the depth transducer and tried out some calcium remover on one of the props. Helen cleaned the bimini underside and the whole cockpit)

We decided we would have a late lunch at the restaurant to get us out of the yard. Knowing that things seem to start an hour late we arrived at the restaurant at 1:30. Helen wanted to arrive around 2 but I didn’t want to miss anything. One member of the band was tuning up and he said that they didn’t plan to start until 2. They didn’t start until 2:30 so guess who gave who a few “told you sos.”

The food and setting were wonderful albeit expensive. Nevertheless it was worth it. We’ve had our taste of Paradise in between the sweat and grime of life in the yard.

Back on the boat it was back to work. This time we focused on the rubber rails that protect the transoms. We wanted to reseal them close to the water. This required pulling them off and cutting away all the previous sealant, putting on new sealant and pressing them back on. We practically used up all the sealant on the first rail so we need to buy some more. Hopefully the store in the yard has some otherwise we’ll have to go into town which will delay us a day.

Most of the rest of the work by the yard has been completed over the weekend. There’s a good chance we’ll splash today but it will have to be the end of the day if we’re going to allow enough time for the second rail to cure. Otherwise it will be one more night before we get out of here.