An exciting event!

Apologies!  hubby is off work on holiday and so we are taking the time to explore and relax with the kids! I will have lots of lovely things to blog about the island over the next few days or weeks (hubby only goes back to work on Friday)!

The most exciting thing happened a week ago on the island!  Telephones buzzed!  E-mails were sent and if you had a boat or a yacht or something that floated you were on it!  For my part it started with a telephone call from hubby at work:  "Guess what?"  me "uh no, what?"  him "there is a boat on fire" me "no way!? seriously!?  where?!" him "out on the water!  there is a thick plume of black smoke!"  You should come down and see"  me "well I am busy making pancakes but hey, we'll go take a look"!  Of course human nature being what it is, I downed pancake making tools, grabbed the kids and the camera and went straight to our neighbour to tell her of the excitment!  Of course she too downed tools, in her case make up tools as she was on her way out, and grabbed her camera!  We got down to the beach and lo and behold there on the horizon was the black smoke. 

Of course we couldn't help but speculate what it was.  Suggestions from people on the beach ranged from yachts to container ships!  Of course a container ship would have been far more exciting for me as I remembered the sinking of the MSC Napoli in 2007, the containers washed on shore and people's scavenger instincts kicked in.  They were grabbing what ever they could, including BMW Motorbikes and no that wasn't me!  By the time we went to investigate the police were everywhere and no one was allowed near the beach where the Napoli's containers had started to wash up on!

Later that afternoon we heard it was a "super yacht" or perhaps I heard million dollar boat and added to the speculation of it being a "super yacht" we have a few that moore here including the largest in the world.  THAT would be disastrous for someone but still not as exciting as a container ship in my opinion!

Of course being on an island a third of the size of Cape Town everyone knows everyone and it turns out someone or actually quite a few someones we knew were on a yacht when they heard the mayday.  They dashed off as fast as their yacht could take them as the owner of the yacht's son was the captain on the boat that was going down!  Turns out there was an explosion on the million dollar deep sea fishing boat and all 8 people were successfully rescued!

People are still talking a week later of this and it  has been great excitement for all those on the island!  Praise the Lord no one was seriously injured!