Our Travels

We gotta check that out. Lord knows where the name came from, but its uninhabited so that’s for us! We’d been joined in the anchorage by a couple of large charter boats and a sailboat that enjoyed the beach and left in the morning, leaving us alone for our explorations. After loading up, we discovered the motor on our dinghy would not go down. So, we transferred our stuff and piled in with Terry and Lynn for our exploration in one (loaded down) dinghy.

Once we secured the dinghy on the island, Todd and Terry walked along in the water searching whilst the girls handled the shoreline. The guys kept going right on up to the north side and the edge of the inlet itself.

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Again, the guys handled the more rugged exploring while the ladies turned the opposite way and took the beachy part and wandered and wandered…

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We did eventually all meet up to compare treasures. We’d ventured a fair piece around to the other side of the island and then roamed a fair piece of coastline. Lynn thought she’d found a path back across, but we took the long scenic route back instead.

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Along the way, Todd offered to pick this up for our future home. Would certainly make an interesting piece of yard art.

As we wandered the long path back, the guys headed for the dinghy, but the ladies were distracted by another sandbar that needed to be explored. They were rewarded by a special find in the shallows.

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Alas, the time came when the ladies definitely needed to catch up to the guys…and,

The dinghy and motor combo weighs in at approximately 100 million lbs. (or so it seems). While waiting for the gals to show up, the guys managed to turn the dinghy around, so the nose was pointed in the right direction. Now we just had to get it TO the water, which would take all four of us. (Good thing we eat our spinach. Ha!) Terry rummaged through the woods and found a perfect lever, about an 8-foot 2×6. Lucky! So, with mighty Terry (did we mention he is like 6’5+) in the back lifting the shoved board under the keel and Todd and Lynn on the side lifting and pulling, all the while Susie was in front pulling and attempting to “steer,” we actually made progress. Slow. But progress, nonetheless.

First a foot or so, but with each coordinated “One. Two. Three. Go.,” we got better. Synchronized heave-ho’s – works every time.

No pictures were taken during this yeoman work simply because ALL HANDS were ON DECK!

We finally got the dinghy to enough water to float her and started loading our things, then us…

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Time to snorkel and put Todd’s new underwater camera to good use.

And our favorite shot?

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We’d been told of a path to a beach directly across the island that we just had to explore before heading south in the bay the next morning.

So we took the dinghies – both running flawlessly (Todd’s scientific whatever worked) – to shore and headed for the little path, marked by nothing… we just found it… but had to pause to try out a makeshift swing.

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Then it was over the hill to the other side.

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Now, let’s get outta here before the tide goes out! 😉