A week of sailing around the island of Antigua has done the body and mind good! There was a mix of sun, rain, clouds, and wind. The truly best part was simply being disconnected from the world for seven whole days. No television, no internet, no cell phone, no radio (well, the Captain used the radio).
There were 8 others aboard the vessel. Captain Dax (a South African who has been sailing his entire life) and wife (aka Chef) Kristen. Jim & Lenore--an older couple who met in Southeast Asia when he was a fighter pilot for the US Airforce and she was working for the Red Cross. Chris and MaryBeth from upstate New York. He owns a contracting company, she her own occupational therapy practice. And Emily and Rafa. He's a spine surgeon (his back up career) and she, a recent retiree at the ripe old age of 35.
My favorite memories:
- Watching pelicans dine for breakfast. There is nothing that makes you feel more lazy than having someone else cook for you all week while watching another organism hunt for food.
- Sailing during high winds and desperately wishing that I can keep my food down. (I did, by the way)
- Solitary walks along the beach
- Discovering a 10-foot wall of shells built over time, exposing colors and textures galore (pictured)
- Acting a chef for lunch while Kristen went to have a tooth extracted
- Noodle bar
- Azure blue waters filled with spawning jelly fish. (FYI, moon jellies feel like what I image silicon implants would feel like).
- Dinghie Slinging. Far too complicated to explain here. Let's just say it didn't make its way into the brochure, as I'm sure we would all be required to sign additional waivers.
- Discover SCUBA (see post below)
- "noodle, noodle please"
- My gins and tonics
- Dax's pina colada, best I've ever had!
- Blaring Eric Clapton's greatest hits below Eric Clapton's house, as if we were part of a scene from Say Anything
- Humpback whales breaching
- Measuring the weight you've gained by the number of noodles used (at one time) at week's end
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