Tuesday & Wednesday 15th + 16th May

Sting Ray

We awoke to the forecast heavy rain showers on Wednesday morning so didn't go out for our daily shop until the rain had stopped around 11:00am; we have found a weather web-site where you put your street name in and it tells you to the minute when it will rain and subsequently stop - not entirely accurate but pretty close! The rest of the day turned out to be warm (low 80s), mainly cloudy and quite breezy with the odd glimpse of the sun. In the afternoon we went to a pier where Ben had been told that you

'Friendly' Hammerhead shark

could fish from - in the event it was a shallow stream as the tide was out.  We then set off to the Atlantic Inter coastal highway where there was a pier you could fish from in any tidal situation.  Much to Liz's surprise Ben caught a stingray followed by a hammerhead shark and then a small black tipped shark. The lady fishing next to Ben caught a much bigger hammerhead  shark which had to be cut off the line as it was too big to land.

Port Royal was a Confederate fort taken by the Unionists in the Civil War

Showers and thunderstorms were forecast for Thursday but we were lucky as it was sunny for most of the day until about 5pm. We played golf on the 'Robbers Row' course at Port Royal Golf Club which has 3 courses with houses alongside the fairways. Port Royal is famous for being one of the pivotal wins by the Unionists in the American Civil War, which effectively cut the supply lines to the Confederate forces and helped lead to their subsequent defeat. We were buddied up with 2 American men Greg (Ohio) and Chris

A scenic hole

(Tennessee) who were good company and very complimentary of Liz's golf.  The course was not quite so pretty as others we have played but we both played well - Liz still managed to beat Ben with 40 points!! [note from Ben - Liz is playing fantastically well with drives of upwards of 170 yards and approach shots to 3-4 feet of the pin. Given that her tee is on most occasions about a 100 yards ahead of mine this is difficult to live with!!].

We are having a BBQ tonight and have been to the 'Fresh Food' Store for meat and salads - yum yum!

The BBQ!