Deidre's Birthday

The Birthday Girl

Thursday May 3, 2012

Breakfast in bed, with the morning paper and first dibs with the iPad. Its a good thing it only happens once a year. We are having a rather quiet day. I did a bit of paperwork this morning and we went for a bike ride this afternoon. Both Ryan and Kylie are working late, so we plan to have the birthday dinner tomorrow night - Friday.

Marriage Savers

One of the great benefits of living on a boat is that you get to buy all sorts of cools stuff. Yesterday one of Deidre's gifts arrived - a set of "Marriage Savers". When we are anchoring, recovering the anchor and docking, there needs to be lots of communication between the deck hand and the Captain. Shouting is not the best method! So based upon recommendation from fellow married sailors, we bought ourselves a pair of "hands free two way walkie-talkies. I will report how they work

Visitor

We see hundreds of porpoises when underway, but they are difficult to photo. This little gay was in the marina yesterday, just wandering around between the boats. I stood on the bow and clicked away with the camera hoping to get a shot - and got this one..