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Skip and Lydia's disappearance?
No, we've not disappeared :{))
Volleyball is mostly old fogies such as myself, and thus the scenic enhancement of bikini-clad lovelies is nowhere to be found, unfortunately. There are the occasional bikinis on the beach, but the courts are well off the shore, and aside from passing them on the way in, I don't see them :{)) The closest seen on the courts is a hardbody couple in their 30s; she usually has a short-shorts and halter outfit, gentle on the eyes, but far more significantly, she also sports a lovely tattoo just above the beltline of said shorts. Her play is exemplary... I've enjoyed playing in the "fun volleyball" group each afternoon in which we've not been otherwise involved, as it's great exercise, albeit proving the aphorism that white men can't jump which I fortunately overcome sometimes by virtue of my 6-4 height and 38" arms. We've been bouncing around, as you can see on our SPOT page, tinyurl.com/flyingpigspot, from beach to beach to town, and, yesterday, a circumnavigation of Elizabeth Island. All this activity has much to do with my son and his wife's visit with us, ending tomorrow. Lots of little sails between scenic sites, music activities (we 4 aboard did the anthem last Sunday at beach church, e.g., and have enjoyed singing barbershop harmony as well, aboard, plus the weekly jam at the Sand Bar restaurant along with the weekly ARG [Alcohol Research Group] meetings held on Hamburger Beach), shore excursions, hikes, snorkeling and the like. Before my son and daughter-in-law arrived, we were doing much the same sort of thing ourselves, along with some boat chores. Fixing the PortaBote's leaking stern bladder (it has to fold when you flatten the boat, so it's much thinner than the body parts), caused by a malfunction which happened in Marsh Harbour, undo-able until the special material arrived with them was the first order of business, successfully concluded, allowing me to resume rowing (with the special alteration I made to allow me to use the racing sculls I kept from my racing scull I used to row on Lake Lanier, home of the 96 Olympics rowing venue). Other chores were tiny, as we're rounding the corner on stuff which either needs replacing or repair, so we've just been enjoying ourselves with the full schedule Georgetown offers. Oh, and I forgot to mention the trips to the library, where we've swapped books we've read for new ones. In my yout' I was a voracious reader, dropping off that level of intake as family and work intruded; cruising has allowed me the luxury of time to resume, which I've taken greedily; I generally read a book every other day or so. Since most of the rbc traffic of late has had little to do with our cruising lifestyle, and, worse, has dozens of meandering responses in a thread which might have had some interest, for the most part, rbc has not been on the top of my reading list :{)) So, we're alive and well and, aside from an intentional grounding for bottom cleaning (which concluded with the rising tide a few hours later), there have been no "exciting marine moments" aboard. The closest to such was our topping lift fouling on the headboard shackle screw head as we dropped the main yesterday; it was resolved in due time and we anchored off Volleyball Beach to go in to enjoy the Monday Night Dance put on each week by Rockin' Ron aboard Sea Dancer, held at Chat'n'Chill... L8R, y'all Skip and crew -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." |
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