Location: Mountain Point, Virgin Gorda
It was a very busy day for the Aloha boat after we got woken up multiple times by the storm the night before. We were all very tired from the night before, especially after getting to stay up and watch a movie. But even with a late night we had an early wake up around six and headed to the baths, where we met up with the rest of dive side and sail side A. While at the baths, where we trek many rocks to get to the jumping rock, after a couple of slips on the slippery boulder, a few of us were able to do some flips and get them on tape. Asa successeded in getting his double back flip off the rock, and I did a pretty good back layout if I do say so myself. All of the girls found a nice moon pool to float in until we were ready to reconvene with the rest of the boat. When all was finished at the baths, all 12 of us raced to Ri’s dingy in order to be the first back on the boat. We arrived on the boat to take hibicleans/freshwater showers before refilling our water tanks in Spanish town, where we could buy snacks and food. We all tried to find a smoothie shop that Tommy had been talking about earlier, but no matter where we looked, we couldn’t find it; we were informed later by Tommy that it had been closed. While also in Spanish town, we stopped for groceries and ice cream before heading to “Bath and Turtles,” the restaurant, to get burgers and chicken Caesar wraps. Wylie and Logan went to get jerk chicken, though, because they really wanted to try it. We wanted to stop at “Arawak,” the shop, but the mean lady who ran the shop shut the door on us and held it shut, not allowing us in until after a specific amount of people had left. But she did let in people who weren’t on the actual quest, which I didn’t appreciate. After finally being let into “Arawak,” Asa, Lilly, and I went back to the grocery store, where we purchased a 40-pack of Capri Suns. When we got back to the boat, we found that Logan had also bought a 40-pack of Capri Suns. I have a feeling that we are still going to run out soon anyway. Ellery and I had to take all of the cardboard off the boat because, apparently, it attracts a lot of bugs, but the process of getting it to trash on land hurt a lot because we went barefoot, and there was a lot of tiny little peddles that poked our feet. Many of us got back to the boat early to finish our search and recovery books before the sail, so we had time to relax.
During the sail we started to make friendship bracelets and teach the people who didn’t know how to make them, some of them picked it up very quick, and some of them had a bit more trouble… After I finished with my bracelet, I got to steer the helm and help with sailing because im the skipper. We sailed back to Mountain Point, where we had been stationed the previous day. Lila and I got to help Ri drop the secondary anchor from “Rango,” our super dinghy. When we got back to the boat, Gabi, JJ, and Ellery helped flake the line and secure the second anchor. We did such a good job with studying and getting our work done that we were able to hold off on diving today and just watch a search and recovery video. Soon after, dinner was ready, where we had beef stroganoff and salad.
Dinner took a bit of a turn when some of us started participating in a moo-off. A moo off is where you get down onto all fours and make eye contact with your opponent, you then either take turns mooing at each other, or you do a continuous moo to see which lasts longest without laughing. Shane won against Wiley, and Asa won against JJ. We all convinced Ri and Tommy to moo off against each other. Tommy won both battles even after Lanie and Riley were bet on Ri winning both. The moo off’s ended up being a lot of people’s appreciation for the day during squeeze, which, if you aren’t familiar with it, is a circle we have after dinner to say what we appreciated that day and answer a question that the skipper had come up with. What would you name a boat? That was the question from tonight. Now, we are going to go over the answers from earlier and start winding down for the night.