Sunday 25 June
In Mate’s opinion, one of the best features of Girvan was the brand new Quay Zone, a leisure complex incorporating a 25-metre swimming pool, gym, café and kids’ play zone. Although this is a private facility, she enjoyed a one-kilometre swim, thorough shower and hair wash, and treated herself to a cappuccino for her efforts, all for £5.60. She went on to earn yet more crew merits by taking Bertha the mile walk to Asda – Sunday opening hours are different North of the border, and she found she could have provisioned any time between 0800-2200. I can tell you it’s not her favourite supermarket, but she seemed to find enough to sustain them for a few more days, judging by how much Bertha was carrying back.
Meanwhile Skipper filled up my water tanks after de-birding my decks, again, and fixed a drawer in the galley that had temporarily vacated its designated position on passage one day recently. Mate rounded off the day with yet more laundry, in preparation for a few days ‘off grid’.