Saturday, June 28, 2008

Parting Anchors


After an invigorating day at sea, tacking between islands, wind in our hair, sun on our backs, great food, laughing and story swapping, we finally pulled into a dock on the island of Omishima – the location of the infamous onsen. The pleasurable day, onsen soaking for some of us and dinner put us to sleep pretty early. The second night found us at Nakashima – inside the breakwater. The location was perfect, quiet, calm, peaceful and we all slept well. It just felt like, well, we belonged there. In the morning we discovered that well…we HAD to stay for a bit. Turns out our anchor had become quite attached to another anchor far under the water. Problem was, they didn’t want to part and go their separate ways. Fortunately, a wonderful couple had just the right piece of equipment on their boat to help us out.

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