We invite you to imagine the scene. All the boats in the flotilla are rafted up in the most idyllic bay miles from anywhere. The sea is calm and turquiose blue in the sunshine and a stone's throw from us is a lovely sandy beach. In our picture George & Yorkie survey the scene from the land where they had gone exploring to work up an appetite for the barbie.
Jono and Stu are on the beach tending the barbie while Holly prepares the salads, and we all have our inflatable dinghies pumped up and ready to row ashore once we have have finished our apperitifs on board. What could possibly be more heavenly?
Then, all of a sudden, the heavens open and down comes the rain with a tropical storm intensity. The lead crew do not shirk from their task and the barbie continues to be tended. We all put our big awnings up on our boats and shelter in the cockpit below them, feeling a bit guilty about being in the dry while Jono and Stu are getting so wet on shore in just shorts and t-shirts. The only compensation is that it's not cold rain.
We wait patiently thinking this is just a storm and it will end soon.
However, it doesn't stop and our enterprising crew take all the cooked food back to their boat, Loutraki. We then all switch on our VHF radios and tune to the flotilla channel. Orders are then placed and plates of food are passed from boat to boat. It was amazing that nothing was lost overboard! What could have been a damp squib turned out to be a lot of fun and a great success.
You could order seconds and then thirds over the VHF and we, on board Spetses, timed our order rather well and manged to get the last souvlaki of the barbecue. It came to us, passed from boat to boat, on a paper plate which Holly had written on to say 'hands off this is for Spetses'. We knew then that Holly did rather like us!
George & Yorkie tucked in and declared it the finest souvlaki they had ever had. Then the rain stopped and we got in the dinghies for some fun.
More to come.
Lots of love George, Yorkie & Eddie xxx
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