Yesterday we moved to Monkey bay to get more shelter. Surprisingly we had the bay to ourselves. As the day went on the wind died down. That meant Lydia had to go check out the reef. Lydia took the dinghy to the edge of the reef where she was going to swim.
It was the first time she had taken the dinghy on her own. It took a few goes to point it in the right direction but eventually made it to the reef. A couple of big turtles were chilling right near the dinghy. No wetsuit, we thought she would be back in a few minutes as the water temperature was 18 degrees. But no, she was out there for about 1 and a 1/2 hours.
When she did get back she was frozen so she rugged up while having something to eat.
Today was a good day. Andrew spent all morning working on the watermaker and it’s now working! We can make 2ltrs a minute.
After lunch some silly person (Andrew) decided we should go kayaking across the bay. So we all fell / piled into the one 2.5 person kayak. We went around in a few circles while we seemed to drift in the general direction of the reef. Once at the reef Lydia had the bright idea that she would go for a swim.
Now we were all wet. Sue and Andrew still managed to stay in the kayak. Lydia swam the reef while Sue and Andrew were tempted to head back to Imagine and leave her behind. But we needed someone to call “stroke” so we could paddle in the same direction, so we waited for her. Getting Lydia back in the kayak was just as drenching as she very lady-like and gracefully struggled to get in the kayak.
As you can tell, we did manage to get back to Imagine somehow.
