Cartwheels and green flashes

After three days of bars and sights we left English Harbour. We had a great sail along the south coast, inside the reef, and up the west coast of the island. The plan was to overnight back in Deep Bay and then head for Barbuda (second attempt). But just like before, that night at anchor, the wind build and swung north.

Instead of Barbuda we decided to stay put. Around noon we decided to visit the next beach over and check out the bar a the Galley Bay resort. There was a bit of swell rolling into Galley Bay but it didn't look too bad on the beach. Wrong. When we were only 20 feet off the beach I looked behind to make sure I had timed the surf right and the wave I was expecting to be a gentle swell had built in size and was cresting. Being down low in the Zodiac it looked about six feet high but was probably only three or four, however it was big enough to pick us and the Zod up and cartwheel us, literally, onto the beach...right in front of a restaurant full with the resort's lunch crowd. Great laughs as we gathered all of our stuff and headed down the beach.

Oh, and that night I saw my first green flash of the trip. I'm told that some people spent their lives down here and never see one. Very cool. It's a phenomena with the light rays that only lasts a second, just as the sun sets. You see a green flash (more like a bright glow than a flash) just after the sun disappears below the sea.