Wednesday 15th January 2025
We awoke to another glorious morning but no rush, nothing specific on today so carried out some domestic chores before heading out.
Today we headed for Galleon Beach, a small bay opposite the entrance to English Harbour where there is a tour that heads out from here, around the headland to the pillars of Hercules where there is a wreck. With this snorkelling tour you get an underwater scooter to pull you along so though it’s a fair way, not too much effort is required.
Arriving in Galleon Bay and parked, we quickly found the “A board” with a ‘phone number and rang it. Today Lee and Sarah were going and booked the 1400hr tour so with a couple of hours to spare, we headed to the beach restaurant for an early lunch, but as we hadn’t booked, we were “told”, we had to be away from our table at 1400hrs as it was booked at that time, no problem with that as the snorkelling tour started around that time.
We ordered some drinks and waited, and waited, they also chivied us up to order our food!!! Anyway apart from diabolically slow service, we enjoyed a very pleasant lunch accompanied by a couple of bottles of Chardonnay. The real joke was, due to their slow service we only just finished by 1400hrs!!!!!
Lee and Sarah headed off to join their tour whilst we headed a few meters and straight into the sea. This beach being in the mouth of English Harbour, though nice sand there was a fair amount of seaweed and shingle, still we managed!!!
We all met up again around 1600hrs. They thoroughly enjoyed their tour of the rocks and wrecks and of course with the scooters pulling them along, minimal effort was required.
Heading back home via a supermarket where the four of us headed in different directions with a task to get two or three items where hopefully this would speed things up and we would all get to the checkout together; it worked, team effort. Back at the ranch, Christine conjured up an excellent Pasta dish followed by the “Key-lime-pie” we bought, yum yum.
We were going to teach our guests to play cribbage but everybody was shattered so we just sat around chatting and drinking: Christine even commented how good it was to see me drinking again, blimey that’s a first!!!
Tomorrow is Lee and Sarah’s last full day, see what they want to do, however we do have a table booked at “Papa Zouk’s”, the fish restaurant they missed out on four years ago