The day is spent in a lazy fashion. Lots of reading and sleeping. Mike and I have almost four weeks off before our chartering begins again with a vengeance and we decide we want to see some other parts of the Virgin Island or even go as far as the Bahamas so we discuss our alternatives.
As it’s Sunday, we arrange to meet Kev and Jo at The Elm for the barbecue and live music. In addition to the Elmtones providing their usual good standard, they are joined tonight by a guitarist and saxophonist …and Shadow. Shadow appears at most of the live music venues in Cane Garden Bay, sometimes banging his sticks together (rarely in time with the music) and enjoying himself dancing with the ladies. This mild mannered Rastafarian, beanpole thin, over 6’ 4” and of indeterminate age, decides that it is my turn to hit the dance floor with him. Jo, Kev and Mike all find this very amusing, Jo especially, who admitted later to hiding behind her husband. Shadow is very gentlemanly about the whole thing (after ascertaining that the guy I am with is my husband) and returns me to my table after our dance. He returns to claim me a couple more times when he can’t find anyone else!
Kev and Jo leave earlier than us, but Jo returns upset a little while later having found their dinghy punctured and sunk under the dinghy dock. This has been in a bad state of repair for some time and theirs is not the first we have seen like this. Kev removes the outboard and they load it into our dinghy to get it back to Invincible, then load their dinghy into ours and get that back too. Kev knows he has his work cut out the next day to fix it all, especially the outboard which has now been in salt water for some time. What an unpleasant end to a lovely evening.
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