So proud of my oldest daughter Tormentina.... I think back to the days when we were without a mast on Navarino Island. At age six, she entered first grade in a foreign country where no one else spoke English, made fast friends, and soon was reading and writing in Spanish and one of the top in her class.
There was no transport on the island to school, and we did not have a car. We lived aboard Anasazi Girl at the Micalvi Yacht Club - 1.5 km out of town, and she made the commute on foot four times a day (6 kms total) as everyone on the island came home for the long meal of the day "almuerzo" (aka lunch) before resuming work/classes in the afternoon.
In all kinds of inclement weather and in Austral winter season (when she left in the dark & came home in the dark), she never complained about the difficulty. She was always excited and full of life - so passionate about making friends and about learning.
That same year, she learned how to sail an optimist on the Beagle Channel, in frigid water temperatures, wearing a full body wetsuit, booties, and gloves - one of the youngest kids in the fleet.
In Grenada, what a treat it was for her to be in the warm waters of the tropics, making fast friends again, and sailing optimists in St. David's Harbour in nothing but a bathing suit.
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| My beautiful daughter aboard Smoke / Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (June 2017) |
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| Alexandra & Tormentina. T's first friend on the Island - the joy of childhood friendship. Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (June 2017) |
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| Alexandra & Tormentina / Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (June 2017) |
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