Today the worst thing imaginable happened. Taua left again. It was inevitable. We still wish it weren’t. Taua has to continue their travels south. They are now on their way to Long Island and then The Turks and Caicos to put up their boat for the season. Likewise we will soon be turning towards home to exit this area and the “hurricane zone”.

We may try to jump over to Long Island next week if all goes well. Peter and Monica plan to spend at least a week at Long Island and once we have sent off our current guest and received our next guest on Monday we may try to jump over and rent a car on Long Island to go to the blue hole on the Atlantic side of the island.

I have read that it is one of the biggest blue holes in the world. It is the deepest and 6th largest cave in the world. Sounds pretty amazing. It might be a good idea since our next guest gets seasick, therefore land excursions makes sense. Besides I’m not just sure how to cook for just 4 people anymore.

Whether we see Taua, Monica, Peter and Claudia any more this trip or not we certainly have enjoyed their company for the last month. The two boats were nearly always together and the girls were together as much as possible even sleeping over and swapping boats for transits when they could.

If we don’t see them again this trip we will all be very sad, we do plan to keep in touch and perhaps the girls can get together again another time and place. We have invited Claudia to come to Maine for the summer and Taua has invited our family to come to France for a visit.

I’d love to think we could make at least one of these opportunities work. Until then, goodbye Taua, safe sailing.