Yesterday morning we drove out to Plantation House. This was the first proper glimpse of the inland of the island, and mom and dad were suitably impressed. We had a picnic on the field, they saw Jonathan, and then we took a walk through Plantation Forest. Dad got into trouble with the governor’s security people for getting too close to the car. There was quite a long sunny uphill bit and mom had to go slowly, but other than that they really enjoyed it. Stopped off at Half Tree Hollow Spar for bread, and dad was excited to spend some money at last – on Pringles and reduced (outdated) ginger beer! After lunch everyone drifted their own ways and I started fiddling on the mandolin, learning a few chords. It’s way different to guitar, so I have to learn it from scratch.
This morning Nick and I set off on our exercise missions together, since we have live-in babysitters. We both did the Jacob’s Ladder bit, although Nick went all the way to the top and I didn’t, then we came down together and he went off for his swim while I walked home. But we had a good close up view of a fairy tern – two of them, actually, who wanted to see people up close and so hovered about a metre above our heads for a long time. I almost thought they might even land on my outstretched hand, but that’s quite optimistic.
We heard on the news this morning that the ship’s crane had problems yesterday when they were unloading the containers, and they had to stop for a while and fix it. The poor old tub. First the engine, now the crane. If the crane actually breaks and can’t be repaired, we’re pretty much done in as far as supplies go. They would have to open up all the containers onboard and manually unload everything, which would take weeks…definitely wouldn’t work.
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