Location: Muskmelon Bay, Guana Island
Alright, Charles here, by the way, and apologies if this blog is shorter than usual, and no need to thank me if it’s more than you got in the past (I don’t know what my other shippies wrote). So we started this morning with delicious pancakes cooked by Eli & Luke, with Drake’s vegan pancakes hopefully being just as good as ours 🙂 After that, we did regular post-breakfast cleanup along with an abnormal and thorough cleanup of the entire boat while Arden & Garrett went and had some sort of staff meeting. We were fortunately able to use Arden’s phone (she left it behind for a reason only she knows) to listen to music, so it wasn’t bad at all! After the cleanup was done, we had a veeeery short sail to Trellis Bay, which was the bulk of our day and so, consequently, will be the bulk of this blog. Trellis Bay is quite easy to describe; it’s a small beach town with a white sand beach and multiple shops and restaurants that stretch the beach’s length. It’s small in a quaint and distinctly tropical way, and my own parents may remember it as the place where we stopped before going to Scrub Island before this camp last year. It would, unfortunately, be incredibly hard to detail the order of activities and all my shipping did at Trellis Bay, so you (and I) will have to settle for an overview of the three activities one can do at the bay and stop to cover some events that happened as a group. First, in order of how I did them, was the grocery store, a welcome addition to a boat whose snacks can be a bit too healthy and a bit less filling or delicious for my reckoning. The standout favorites were, per usual, Chips Ahoy and sodas (special thanks to Amelia for buying me a four-pack of Redbulls :). After that (again only for Kai, Alex, and I) we had lunch at the restaurant next door to the grocery store, there are multiple restaurants but I believe it to be the best one, as it had extraordinary food. I personally had the salmon and fried bananas, but I know multiple people who got the pizzas, such as Alex and Eli, which was possibly the best meal of the trip so far, except for the delicious meals I have cooked in the past, of course. During lunch, we also met the two animals of the day: Kitty, the black kitten, and Chicken Nuggets, the dastardly chicken. The first notable for his friendliness and allowing Alex (and all of us) to pet her, and the second for somehow stealing a whole slice of pizza!
After lunch, again only relative to my personal experiences, was the jewel of Trellis Bay, Aragon’s Workshop, a boutique souvenir shop that sells local tee-shirts, pottery, necklaces, and other souvenirs, which hopefully your child or boyfriend 😉 Can show you when they get home. I do believe that every one of my shippies did all three of those activities in some order today, but that finally brings us to the last thing we did at Trellis Bay: We socialized! We got to talk to people from a bunch of other boats, such as how Luke, Chase, Drake, Juni, and I got to talk to the kids from my boat last year: Meow or Never. Or how Amelia & Carla got to talk to the girls from Avizia. Overall, it was a fun experience that we don’t get every day, so we all were very thankful for the opportunity and savored the conversation. That sadly ends Trellis Bay and brings us to the last part of the day, our dinner on the boat, per usual. Now, sitting here, after writing this in retrospect monster of a blog, I forget two things: where we sailed from Trellis Bay and before dinner, and what we actually had for dinner. So I will say quickly: the sail was short, and dinner was good. That said, we can finally get to the real peak of today, which is my squeeze question! I asked everyone this: look to the person on your right, what do you think their name should be, not what it already is, but what really fits them. We got some really interesting answers to that, for instance we determined I would be a Simon or that Christina would be a Tina, and that while Landon is certainly a Landon right now, he might grow up to be a Josh :). That said, goodnight, everyone. It’s getting late, and Alex just ate a stale Saltine. Tyler is mad that the boys keep skipping his music. Goodnight, and have a good day!
-Charles Juneau, Carina Student, Soon To Be Advanced Open Water Diver, and Overall Most Talented Member of Odyssey