6 stops - 1 nature park – 2 birthdays – 1 ruined pair of flip flops -
64 cups of coffee –2 homemade cakes baked in a pressure cooker –
4 ice creams – 1 stingray – 3 stranded Indonesians - 1 tug boat
1 shark – 11 mailed postcards – 14 read books – 2 attended concerts -
2 birthdays – 1 game of billiard – 63 insect bites – 1 bronze tan –
1 dinghy ‘accident’ – 9 snorkeling trips – 20 turtles – 1 water accident with my phone –
29 showers in bikini – 1 naked shower – 6 Austrian nudist …………..
my life in numbers………….
so how to translate numbers into stories, that’s always the difficult part at least for me!
So let’s start from day 32 and take a sort of Adam and Eve approach
Sunday May 30, 2010 – We are now back in Carriacou. It is a bit more crowded than the last time. The weather is slowly changing and the hurricane season is approaching. With coming of the hurricane season the sailing community is abandoning the north and heading south down to Trinidad and Tobago, and for those with a bit more courage or who are not scared to risk their life Venezuela.
So how is my typical Sunday – get up and have my two cups of coffee and a bowl of oats, followed by a morning swim in the ocean and drying up at the stern of the boat. Afterward ,I read for a couple of hours in my book and do some work. In the afternoon I bake a bit, today brownies and bread, and while the cake is baking and the bread is rising I go for the second swim of the day.
So a Sunday somewhat similar to a Sunday in DK except for the weather, 32 degrees and a humidity of 75 percent……………and yes I am melting like butter on toast
Since Saturday was pretty mediocre I’ll skip as we only did a bit of laundry and I escaped to my cabin to watch Eurovison
Friday May 28, 2010
Woke up in Clifton – The Grenadines and went to bed in Carriacou – Grenada. Friday was the day were we had to say goodbye to our to guests from the states - Ben and Becky - and it was the first day in 30 days where I had my first warm shower and weren’t wearing a bikini.
So Ben and Becky have been keeping us company on the boat for the last week and during the week they provided us with lovely food, great company and lots of fun. It was absolutely great to have some new energy and input to the daily life on Outlier.
To the daily life of Outlier is the daily showers after the daily swim, most boats including this one have their showers in the cockpit. As the cockpit is the place where you have the steering wheel it should be easy for all of you to guess that privacy is not an opportunity. So unless you are from Austria and don’t mind the fact that people might can see you, you shower in your bathing suit. So for the last 30 days I have been showering in my bikini.
As Becky and Ben chose to spend their last night in the Caribbean in a hotel I took the opportunity to borrow the shower in their room early Friday morning. I cannot describe the pleasantness in this unknown luxury. Being able to take a shower without the entire boat community being able to watch me during this procedure was so great ………… the privacy of a shower should not be underestimated.
Feeling reborn and well smelling I was now ready to return to Carriacou.
64 cups of coffee –2 homemade cakes baked in a pressure cooker –
4 ice creams – 1 stingray – 3 stranded Indonesians - 1 tug boat
1 shark – 11 mailed postcards – 14 read books – 2 attended concerts -
2 birthdays – 1 game of billiard – 63 insect bites – 1 bronze tan –
1 dinghy ‘accident’ – 9 snorkeling trips – 20 turtles – 1 water accident with my phone –
29 showers in bikini – 1 naked shower – 6 Austrian nudist …………..
my life in numbers………….
so how to translate numbers into stories, that’s always the difficult part at least for me!
So let’s start from day 32 and take a sort of Adam and Eve approach
Sunday May 30, 2010 – We are now back in Carriacou. It is a bit more crowded than the last time. The weather is slowly changing and the hurricane season is approaching. With coming of the hurricane season the sailing community is abandoning the north and heading south down to Trinidad and Tobago, and for those with a bit more courage or who are not scared to risk their life Venezuela.
So how is my typical Sunday – get up and have my two cups of coffee and a bowl of oats, followed by a morning swim in the ocean and drying up at the stern of the boat. Afterward ,I read for a couple of hours in my book and do some work. In the afternoon I bake a bit, today brownies and bread, and while the cake is baking and the bread is rising I go for the second swim of the day.
So a Sunday somewhat similar to a Sunday in DK except for the weather, 32 degrees and a humidity of 75 percent……………and yes I am melting like butter on toast
Since Saturday was pretty mediocre I’ll skip as we only did a bit of laundry and I escaped to my cabin to watch Eurovison
Friday May 28, 2010
Woke up in Clifton – The Grenadines and went to bed in Carriacou – Grenada. Friday was the day were we had to say goodbye to our to guests from the states - Ben and Becky - and it was the first day in 30 days where I had my first warm shower and weren’t wearing a bikini.
So Ben and Becky have been keeping us company on the boat for the last week and during the week they provided us with lovely food, great company and lots of fun. It was absolutely great to have some new energy and input to the daily life on Outlier.
To the daily life of Outlier is the daily showers after the daily swim, most boats including this one have their showers in the cockpit. As the cockpit is the place where you have the steering wheel it should be easy for all of you to guess that privacy is not an opportunity. So unless you are from Austria and don’t mind the fact that people might can see you, you shower in your bathing suit. So for the last 30 days I have been showering in my bikini.
As Becky and Ben chose to spend their last night in the Caribbean in a hotel I took the opportunity to borrow the shower in their room early Friday morning. I cannot describe the pleasantness in this unknown luxury. Being able to take a shower without the entire boat community being able to watch me during this procedure was so great ………… the privacy of a shower should not be underestimated.
Feeling reborn and well smelling I was now ready to return to Carriacou.
Thursday May 27, 2010
After a last swim and final goodbye to the Tobago Cays we left for Union Island, more exactly Chapham Bay. Chapham Bay, the beautiful isolated bay with no phone signal what so ever………..well unless you want to take your dinghy out to the open sea in the middle of the night to make a call (yes that did happen once). Fatigue we did the only thing we could do after arriving, jump in the dinghy and head straight for land for a 'cheeseburger in paradise' lunch and mosquito hell. This was probably the best burger ever, it helps when you haven't had one for a month. Anyway here we were, 1 hours by car to the nearest town, nothing but a sandy-white beach, two shags and 1 resort and 5 boats and eating the best burger ever.
After a nice lunch Becky and I decide to have a trail run on her birthday, this included several of glasses of wine before strolling down the beach to re-visit Vanessa the owner of the Sun Bar in Chapham. After a few rum punches there we were now ready for the great fish dinner dinner at the Sun bar. We'll I remember it as being great but guess that Rum and Wine always add positive to the impression. The night ended with 'pirate' tales from a flight observer from the US, me wanting to steal a massive big Swedish flag hanging in the middle of the bar, someone from our crew getting dangerous close to falling in the water when he/she had to crawl up from the dinghy and up to our boat (not me) and a birthday song in Danish for Jules on the flying Buzzard and our own Becky.
Monday May 24, 2010
After a day of some pleasant snorkeling - where we among others spotted a shark and five turtles - we went for my first visit to Mick and Jule's magnificent Tug boat 'the Flying Buzzard'. Bringing along a home made banana cake we arrived at the boat late afternoon just in time for happy hour. We were introduced to the rather big crew, which included 4 English’men’, 3 Indonesians and 1 guy from Argentina - a night in company with the world. Julian the Argentinean took me on a tour around the boat, which among other contained a 4x4, one crane, one 10 meter long bamboo stick, one library and one billiard table..............well hello there billiard table. So as you might have guessed the beer drinking happy hour company was quickly abandoned by me and instead I spent my evening in the company of three photo shooting Indonesians, one Argentinean billiard shark soft to the eyes of a woman and one billiard table. In the heat of the game swear words, compliments and jokes were thrown around in Indonesian, Spanish, Danish and English as the ball would change position either by human force or by sea force. The latter, either turning out to your fortune or devastation. All in all a great night, with the only negative being that it ended to early
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