June 3rd 2019
It was less tropical than yesterday, a good day to do boat chores. Cleaning the boat is one of them. Never our favourite job, but one of the good things about living in a tiny floating house is that it doesn’t take too long to clean it all.
After the cleaning operation we needed to get some groceries for the coming passage. Doing groceries is also a bit different when you are cruising. Normally we just got a cart and piled in everything we needed for the coming week, put it all in the car and drove home. But now we have to rely on the strength in our arms, and although we are sailors, we are not Popeye. And even if we were Popeye the Sailorman, it wouldn’t fit in our tiny fridge anyway. So in stead of the cart we take a basket. As long as the basket is still not too heavy to carry, it is the right amount to fit in our backpacks, we’ll be able to carry it back and it will fit in the fridge.
In the evening we heard funny splashing sounds, and we wondered what kind of big birds were passing our boat. Turned out to be a flock of humans, swimming back and forth in our stretch of the canal. They looked a bit like funny birds though, with their brightly coloured floating devices.