Day 73, 29 July

23 Visitors

Ladies Sailing Group in Front of Lighthouse

Today started with Sue arriving in three 40+ foot sailboats with about 16 ladies who are part of a ladies sailing group.  Because of their large boats they required the 3 outer most moorings.  Unfortunately, a powerboat was using one of them. When these two people came ashore Fred asked them if they would move their boat to a different mooring to accommodate the three shortly arriving sailboats.  They were more than happy too and moved their boat.  When the three sailboats arrived, Fred helped the ladies onto the beach and helped bring their dinghies up the beach.  Once they all made it to the lighthouse, Fred gave them tours while Cyn manned the gift shop, museum and talked to them down below.  The two that graciously moved their boat had already had a nice tour by Cyn.  The ladies had a nice lunch and invited us to join them for a very nice shrimp salad.  Since we were still busy with them and some other visitors we accepted some salad and had it after all had left.  Fred saw them off as another sailboat arrived with a lone gentleman on board.  Fred gave him a tour too.  We finally ate our salad that was very good with a bit of extra dressing on top.

Tomorrow will be “armada” day, the day a whole bunch of wood and materials will be delivered to the island by multiple boats taking multiple trips.  Included will be 250 large pieces of wood for the tram repair and 15 80lbs bags of shingles for new tram and boathouse roofs.  To prepare for this Anne asked Fred to have various items ready at the cove for the next morning including drills, chainsaws and a wheelbarrow.  He loaded up the tram with all this and brought it down.  He also brought down most of the items that will go to shore with us tomorrow.  Even thought there will be much activity tomorrow it is still our day off the island.  Cyn worked in the garden and around the lighthouse tending her plants and removing weeds. 

Sacatar, Cynthia and Fred

Cyn finally found a little bit of spare time to do a pencil sketch of the lighthouse from the east side.  This is the first step to paint the lighthouse.  She was very happy to finally be an artist on the island. 

After several hours of sketching, Fred brought up a heavy 5-gallon bucket of seaweed from the cove that Cyn placed between the rows of plants.  Fred decided his hair was too long and cut his hair with some power clippers he brought.  Cyn finished the cut by trimming around the ears and neckline.  Since he retired, that is the way he cuts his hair.

For dinner, Cyn made a salad with lettuce and other greens from the garden and prepared the “Ronald Reagan” Mac and Cheese she had made previously.   She added to it Teriyaki and pineapple meatballs.  It was really good.  We went to bed as a reasonable time as we have to get up at 0600 to make the 0700 ferry to Fort Popham for our day in town.