The Ecstasy and the Agony

The Ecstasy – yesterday, climbing Monument Hill on a hike to the top, and then down to the ocean side. The most exquisite, white-sand beach and roiling blue ocean we’ve ever seen! We had the miles-long beach all to ourselves, while we ate our picnic lunch and marvelled at the power of the waves.

Then some new friends from the New Year’s Eve party appeared and we hiked back and met them on the harbour-side beach for a swim. A perfect afternoon!

The Agony – today as we battled the elements to and from George Town, where we needed to do some errands. The waves in the harbour were two feet high, and we smashed through them in our little dinghy, ferrying water, ice and provisions to Sea Change, and then risked life and limb transporting them from the dinghy to the boat – wicked! The passage out of Elizabeth Harbour, through the underpass into placid Lake Victoria was like riding white water in a canoe – and we arrived back at the big boat soaked to the core.

The photos below are from yesterday – there was no chance to pull out a camera today in all of that chaos – you’ll have to take my word for it! The good news is that we managed all of that with no injury to either of us, though our evening consisted of rubbing each other’s aching muscles with Voltaren and mumbling about getting a water maker J.