Where we lived this week

After our barbi on Thursday 3rd with Sam & his mate Paul at Barnpool, we dropped them off at Mayflower and did our first sailing at night, which was quite an event finding & picking up a mooring buoy in pitch dark with a spring tide. We sailed up to Cawsand the next day and anchored next to our old neighbours Rod & Margaret who came across for a tea. Saturday morning we went ashore to buy eggs & sausages for a fryup and again later for the rest of the afternoon for the photos and to laze on the beach in the sun with the crowds (Mayuri being the accountant counted 65 boats anchored at dinner time!) We bumped into Martyn & Anne as we dingied back to Janix, and then John, Wendy & their freinds came aboard too. We went across to UFO later that night for drinks with Martyn & Anne, but as I forgot to turn on the anchor light before we left, it seemed a long dark trip into nowhere motoring the dingy back later. We left early the next morning to catch the tide into Hooe lake where we've being anchored until today (Fri), sheltering from the bad weather. We became proper liveaboard sailers on Thursday when we took the dingy up river to do the shopping at Morrisons, and beat the record time for getting out of the dingy and onto the boat on Wednesday night as I rowed back to the boat after dropping Sam off ashore. Just as I got to the boat, a big black head came out of the water. I think now it was a Sealion or maybe a dolphin, but at the time I didn't know what it was and didn't want to be in a rubber dingy next to it!