The gang’s all here in zodiac life jackets before going ashore at St Peters Port at our unscheduled stop at Guernsey in the Channel islands. The easterly winds in the Scilly Isles off Devon made it unsafe for the zodiacs or for the local wooden boats to come take us ashore.
With ‘Secret Mission’ accomplished in St Peter’s Port, Guernsey, the A Team bounces through the choppy sea back to home base aboard Silver Cloud.
Not quite 40 shades of green of the Emerald Isle but who’s counting? And it’s good to be on the road again and here in Dublin after three years of Covid confining us to barracks.
On Saturday, we’re heading out to sea again for three weeks on Silver Cloud Expedition ship sailing first to a couple of islands off the coast of Devon, England, and then down the western coast of Brittany in France and on to the north of Spain, around Portugal to Lisbon and Up the river to Seville, across the Mediterranean to Algiers and Tunisia, with the final port of call in Sicily before disembarking in Malta.