Anse Marcel shoreline
Anse Marcel shoreline
Picture of Arnd

Arnd

2015 Trip 2015-04-06

In the morning hours I got busy, doing the laundry and dishes while editing the previous days pictures. I also got on a support chat with my hosting provider regarding some strange error message I’ve been receiving on upload and after the obligatory wait to reach a person we were chatting when I managed to dump a fresh full cup of coffee right into the keyboard! I had to flush out the coffee from the wireless keyboard (luckily the mouse was spared the fate of death by coffee) with water and let drip-dry all day. I’m now using my backup wired keyboard.

All 4 of my friends came aboard afterward for the day and we motored up to Anse Marcel right around the corner and anchored off the beach. Unfortunately the waves were wrapping around the headland and Zanshin had an occasional but very pronounced rolling motion and after a short swim, where Alyssa spent time waiting in vain for a turtle to resurface, we weighed anchor and headed back towards Anse de Pères since that had turned out to be a very calm anchorage well suited for visiting sailors. The beach was as crowded as on the previous day, but luckily the battle of the loudspeakers from ashore had been fought and the survivor was playing at a more moderate volume.

We did a lot of nothing, mainly paddle boarding, swimming, grilling hot-dogs on the barbie and listening to our music (when it wasn’t being overpowered from the shore) before heading back to Grand Case to witness the sunset from the boat. We went to a LoLo for an early dinner and I, for my part, watched an episode of an old TV-Series from my childhood (“Hogan’s Heroes”) before falling asleep.

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight. 

Every.  Single.  Page. 

 

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies. 

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.