We woke to a favourable weather update. If everything stays as it is we will have at least an extra day here.
At 9:30am, the jetty on Bryher was a hive of activity, Lots of containers (of food?) being loaded onto a fishing boat, lots of ferries toing and froing.
Today is the low tide festival. The tide will go out far enough to allow people to walk from Tresco to Samson. To mark the day there is a pop up food and music event on the sand bar inbetween.
We joined in and were amongst the first hundred or so people to arrive. The first stall to be up and running was the Island Fish stall selling seafood paella, crab, lobster and prawn sandwiches. This had all arrived by the fishing boat which was now aground on the sandbank.
Then tractors with trailers began arriving carrying tables, stalls, bars, food & drink. And a local band to entertain the crowd which by then was possibly 1000 strong.
Now in my last post I said we had seen very few people, but here there were suddenly 100s. All was revealed, when we sailed over to St. Martins in the afternoon. A cruise ship sat in Crows Sound had been depositing vistors to the islands.
After walking the length of St Martins, we sailed to St Mary’s, ending up in Porthcressa Bay for the night.
It’s been a busy day.
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