After breakfast in relative peace at 8, Niels Stentoft and I walk in to St. George’s. The sun is shining and the wind dropping. We visit bank, wine merchant, stationers, etc and collect some good cardboard boxes from our supermarket. We spend the afternoon packing the box number 1 and examining yesterdays catch. In fact, Niels has the box packed and taped up in an hour.
He and I then go for a walk at 4 along the old railway line towards Whalebone Bay.
I’d forgotten this walk – we did it several times 3 years ago in the cooling sunset.
We look at a group of buildings I’d walked past before. They terminate a little railway with tiny gauge. The buildings have a wrecked remains of a carriage – to seat two or, just four, and the other a stream locomotive, very rusted.
A third contains a tiny diesel locomotive. I attempt photos.
We climb the nearby hill to admire (and photograph) the view.
Back to supper at 6 in Main Building. Peter and the others arrive just before, with a large bucket full of rocks, from a reef near the inner edge of the rim. So after supper, we bash these up and just get finished before darkness prohibits work. Write up the notes.
Jean Washington askes me to identify a lot of tiny bivalves. She then comes back with us and we find M-A sitting on the terrace, the children asleep and Peter Garret & Jean-Ann walking. So Niels makes 4 rum punches. Mary-Ann suddenly leaves (having realized that we are now here to guard the babies) and takes her rum punch with her!
Jean, Niels and I enjoy ours, and go to bed at 11.
Vincent Astor became one of the richest people on earth, over night, when his father John Jacob Astor IV died on the Titanic.
He had these steam engines imported from Britain. Unfortunately they were left to rot, after his death in 1959