28 Jan: Very windy night, but not too much lapping on the stern.
We woke up to find the boat is jammed against pontoon. It needs more mooring lines to help pull it off, so we take a bow line to the neighboring Oyster yacht. Apparently there will be big northerly swell coming in, so like our neighbors we double up our lines.
On this very bright clear morning we head off to St Nicholas Abbey. It’s a beautiful mansion and estate. One of the three Jacobean (year 1640) houses in the western hemisphere. It was a sugar cane plantation with rum factory restored as it would have been, complete with wind mill and the later, fully working, and steam driven mill to crush the sugar cane. We do rum tasting and enjoy the setting, imagining how it would have been a busy industry with a hundred people working there under supervision of English owners in white suits and Pith hats.
Then we drive to East Point lighthouse and look again at the boiling ocean. A short stop at Crane Beach where people are surfing, then late lunch.
Last stop of the day at Holetown, for a walk on the beach at dusk followed by rum punch(es!) with a live steel band performance at a beach bar.
Back at the boat, we again have to tighten the mooring lines as the surge is now throwing CB around quite strongly, lurching against its restraints, first one way then the other.
Then to bed …. a little bit too rummed-out!