We rowed to Swan Island this morning. The island was very small and consisted of a paved road, a few houses and a ferry terminal. It felt good to stretch our legs and walk after being on the boat for a few days. The days pretty much revolve around eating and napping in the sun. The food was delicious, too delicious, because we ate way too much food. We had fresh baked breads, biscuits, muffins, scones, or rolls with each meal. Our cook, Donna, fixed us dessert for every lunch and dinner.
Back on Swan Island, we searched for beach glass and found more than I expected. The three youngest passengers on our ship went swimming. Jon was jealous; he wished he had brought his swim trunks out to the island with him. The water, after all, was a refreshing 50 degrees. One of the swimmers had found a bottle bottom with a product name. They were joking about me making a necklace out of this bottle bottom. They started calling it bling. They said she should call her creations Beach Bling.
We started to notice that the leftovers from previous meals were starting to appear again. Donna was very creative at adding these into the meals. Last night’s salmon and asparagus was today’s topping on a white pizza. It was very good.
We motored on to the next destination. It was getting foggier and there was little breeze, so we could not use the sails. During the ride, I nodded off and started to snore. It was the first time anyone on board, except for Kim, had heard me snore. We were next to another couple. Apparently the boyfriend was also napping. His girlfriend thought it was him and woke him to stop snoring.
Today was the first day we saw dolphins and seals. They never came too close to the ship, so we really never got a good look, but we could see them in the distance.
We eventually arrived at McGlathery Island. This is now a sanctuary. At one time there were fields and few trees. It was used as grazing land for sheep. About twenty years ago, it was cleared of buildings and left on its own. It is now so overgrown with trees and brush that you cannot hike into the interior.
We were allowed to wander around the island for about an hour. It was low tide and we were able to walk over to a small island adjacent to McGlathery Island. There was no beach. We had to walk around the rocks. In some cases, we had to climb up and over some rocks to continue around. Some creative souls had taken the many lobster buoys and hung them from a tree.
When it was dinner time, we rowed back to the island. The crew had brought over all of the supplies we needed and Donna cooked on the beach. Kim collected seaweed to pack around the lobsters. This must have given them a familiar surrounding before their violent death.
When we received our lobsters, one of the crew would name each lobster. I had Sleepy and Kim had Droopy. We sat on some rocks and started cracking the shell to get at the tasty lobster meat. We both went back for another lobster. It was a great setting for a meal.
We motored to Stonington Harbor for the night. It was getting dark and was so foggy, that we could not see the town. All we could see was another schooner and a few lobster boats. We will have to wait until tomorrow to see what the town looks like.
We played Celebrity again tonight, but we had more people. They could hear us having fun last night and wanted to see what it was all about.
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