Back to Bermuda, family, Fern camp and fun times.

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It was time to travel back to Bermuda.

A year had passed since we had been home, which was longer than usual.

Our friends Don and Pam arrived from the Rio Dulce, to care for Aeeshah and Chico.

For the first few days after their arrival we showed them the necessary know-how’s aboard Aeeshah. Being cruisers themselves they had plenty of experience with sailboats, but all boats are different. Plus they got to reacquaint themselves with Chico and learn his preferred routine.

We rented a golf cart and toured the entire Red Frog area. Doing this we had fun exploring all the lanes and tracks around the area. The highlights being Polo beach and finding 4 sloths in one area, oh and a cavern.

Bye bye Panama hello Bermuda

Off we went, our 1st flight aboard a small plane left Bocas and took us across Panama to Albrook airport, Pamama city.

There we taxied across the city to a hotel near Tocumen International airport. The next day we flew from Tocumen to Atlanta where again we spent a night and finally the following day we flew home.

The near month in Bermuda whizzed by

As usual we had maintenance to be seen to, part of the Airbnb to paint, repairs to be done, power washing, mending, patching, sorting, and just so much to keep us very busy. There were doctor appointments, daily John drove Chrissie to work and picked her and Quest up, so in exchange we used her car.

Kate’s place needed a few rooms painted, and we had May during the day instead of her going to summer camp.

We did some fun things with Missy May, going to Dockyard and having ice-creams,

building and painting Blue bird boxes for our woodland reserve,

plus the usual painting and drawing. Plus there was Jesse to feed some evenings.

One late afternoon we both walked the railway trails to the stable and fed old Jesse. He’s just as lovely as always.

Fern Island camp

One of the last weekends was the Fern Island camp. This time John and I did not spend the night. We went out Thursday with Gavin, Lily, Eve and May to set up the camp.

John cutting the grass, Gavin setting up the camp, then putting up tents,

the girls playing and swimming and me watching them, making sure all is good.

Friday out we went again,

this time there were Gavin, Katie, Lily, Eve, and Amy their dog; John and I with May and Quest, plus Ruben, Chrissie’s beau. Gavin and family were there for the weekend. Meeting us there were Kate and Josh arriving on Josh’s jet-ski, plus Sean and 2 of his girls, and Cloe their dog.

We had a fun day, the children swam about 80% of the time. The rest of the time they explored all over Fern while the dogs bombed about.

The themes this year seemed to be jumping in from atop Gavin’s flying bridge, hanging out on the rocks and paddle boarding.

The kids also conned Josh into jet ski rides.

When you are talking about 6 children that ride for 10 minutes each, that was a lot of jet ski running about. Daniel and his two girls arrived later in the afternoon, Josh decided, no more jet ski rides.

Saturday we were back to Fern, this time Chrissie came and Daniel’ s wife Melody plus the new puppy.

At this stage there were more children and dogs than adults. Everyone had a wonderful time, the kids were nonstop action,

swimming, paddle boarding, snorkeling, jumping off where-ever while most of the adults relaxed and looked on. Except Katie who did paddle board excursions around Fern.

Quest’s 5th Birthday

Another Saturday Quest had his 5th Birthday party at Gavin’s house. Again this year it was a family affair. We were really happy to see Rhianna there as we hadn’t seen her due to her being away with her Mom.

Plus Ethan popped by in the police car, this meant that for the first time in years all 6 of our grandchildren were present at the same time. Of course I had to line them up and take photos and it was like herding cats.

Then there was a slip’n slide to ride,

the pool to swim and jump in,

lots of chatting and catching up with extended family,

hot dogs and burgers to eat, birthday cup-cakes with Beyblades being the theme.

and presents, and so much more.

What a busy afternoon!

Earl passed by

We were visited by hurricane Earl the week before we left. He actually turned into a non event. It did blow a bit and the surf was up and ploughing ashore.