Day 28 - 7/23/24
It’s like a dream being here. Strange and wonderful things are happening to us.
We left Louisa island this morning and headed back to Little Current. Only about an hour and a half sail and again we are amazed at how beautiful these sails are. We could see many sail boats having just as much fun as us.
We didn’t get the easy end of the dock as we had hoped and ended up at a much more preferable slip along the wall closer to town. There was a tall ship right next to us and the captain and 1st mate of that ship caught our line. The first mate has more credentials than Richard and is under 20 years old! It is a learning ship, one of three in this organization. They take underprivileged kids and take them sailing all in summer. Over 30 kids working in 3 shifts and hot bedding (meaning there are only about 10 bunks aboard and when one shift ends they go wake up the next shift and take their bunks. We chatted a long time with the captain and mate as they were just as interested in our boat as we were theirs. They even gave us a tour before we watched the crew disembark and go through the swing bridge.
Our friends from our home port are here in a group of 5 boats. Pagi Wawiorka Tank came over and gave us hugs and regaled how their trip was going. And then people who met us at Louisa and also folks who met us at the Benjamin’s came over. We were docked 3 hours before Richard and I could take leave for a shower! We’ve come a a new world, a place we have never been and yet somehow we have gained a bit of notoriety. Even when we went to get fixing for dinner we ran into people we knew.
Around 6pm as I was washing up some dishes I heard the voices up deck that I had been waiting for. Our dear friends Elizabeth Mc Donough and Karl Perron who live in Montreal had arrived! They came all this way to see us and we are just overwhelmed by love. We met this two on our cruise in the Baltic Sea with Randina Jakres. We all became instant friends for life. They drove all the way here to spend a few days with us and we hope to take them and their daughter out on some amazing adventures in a few days when the rain clears.
The kids made Taco Tuesday for all of us and they presented the kids and Richard the most amazing sunglasses. I got a beautiful necklace
I played my trumpet at 9 and oh my, that brought a slew of people to the boat. Between the beauty of our boat, Richard’s beard and my trumpet we don’t get a lot of peace at the docks. It is overwhelming but in the best kind of ways.
We finished the night around 2am having the best time with Lilly and Karl and making plans for the days ahead!
