This week on board:
*We got back in the water. Yay.
*We took Ondine on a little test sail with Andy and Marie (they did the work on the boat) and we got to fly the spinnaker, our favorite sail.
*Paloma took her first flight alone, to visit her friend Ginger, who is visiting Virgin Gorda from NY. (We are sailing to pick her up)
*We enjoyed our last days with the crew from S.V Ouma. (We miss you already)
*Donna, Luca and Joaquino joined us from New York. Joaquino and Ronan are two little peas in a pod.
*We sailed to St. Barts.
*On the way to St. Barts Luca put in a line and got a bite almost immediately got a bit and reeled in a Barracuda (making us, the worst fisher people at sea, very jealous) Unfortunately we had throw it back because it may have had ciguatera.
*The universe was very kind to Ronan. A while back Ronan had lost his boogie board. He was very sad but very good about not expecting us to buy him another one. Then James was given one by Budget Marine. (It gives you an idea how much we spend there) Lucky Ronan.
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I went to an Easter yoga workshop, studied up on climate change and did no shopping, apart from food and cups of coffee. I think I must be Louise’s antithesis: I haven’t shopped for clothes etc for six months and miss it not at all!
And Emmylou has written a blog, Ask Emmylou.
We went camping for ten days on the South NSW coast – first time camping with all 3 kids. Borrowed the equipment we didn’t have, camped alongside friends so shared fire, cooking, freshly-caught fish (bream, mullet, flathead, taylor (sp?) – most of them caught by 12 and 14-year-old sons of our friends with rods and spears). It was really lovely. Excellent Easter weather, hardly any wind, swam every day (this would not have happened if we were closer to home in Victoria, at this time of year). But also very happy now to be home in a comfortable bed, clean clothes etc. Although the kids say they would rather be back camping.