A much quieter day on the beach today, I think the activity over the past few days was because it was a long week end with holidays last Thursday and Friday.
We had our friends Jan and Greg over for lunch and a snorkel. They are good fun and enjoy their food and booze as much as we do. I decided to make hummus and got my chick peas draining, my tahini and carefully squeezed lime juice, from my last two limes, in the blender. Put it on and discovered our inverter for the electrics has gone on the blink, we could not get it working again. So sadly hummus came off the menu. My plan to make a choc cake with our rather large stash of not very nice dark chocolate also fell flat as we are running so low on gas and we cant get the fitting to work on the new tank of butane that we bought in Marin. Our provisions are a bit low so Rowan popped into the village bakery and got us some bread and pastry treats for pudding. We managed to rustle up a tasty bulgar wheat salad, with aubergine and red pepper done on the bbq, and chicken skewers marinaded in our delicious Ponzu sauce. All washed down with some nice cold rose wine. It was a fine lunch in the end!
Not a very good pic of our resident pelican at our snorkel spot.
Greg and Jan are also having work done to their boat in the marina, so we will see them there on Wednesday again – dinner at theirs! Such a social whirl……we are the only two English boats we’ve seen in weeks. It is great to have a bit of interaction. We have been challenged to a Shithead (card game!) match after dinner. Greg came snorkelling with us, Jan does not swim much or snorkel, I don’t know how she keeps so cool looking. She is very fair so doesn’t tan at all, and has been on the boat since 2017! We snorkelled from the boat as it isn’t far at all to the rocky coral beds. Crossing the grassy area we saw a biggish sea snake, which gave me a bit of the heebie jeebies! But soon forgotten as the fish were stunning in the clear water with lots of sunlight showing them off beautifully. We spotted a couple of huge Lion fish which look so dramatic with all their floaty spines wafting in the moving water, catching the sunlight. Of course they are a major pest as they spread around the world and you are allowed to kill them. They apparently make great sushi, but can’t think how one would be confident of killing and filleting such a poisonous delicate fish.
I’ve started a new book, The Dry, a recommendation ages ago from my friend Isobel. Set in the drought stricken farming community in Australia – it’s a gripping who did it!
Gorgeous twilight colours and the little white scratch at the top is the crescent moon.
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