Recipe for the best day of 2019
Ingredients
- 1 handsome multi-talented man
- 2 kind, fun, resilient boys
- 1 sturdy sail boat
- 1 pinch of wind (not too strong, not too light, and preferably in the right direction)
- slight sea
- 1 whale
- 1 island (not too far, not too close, and preferably with an iconic bay)
- friends (as many as required)
Directions
- Wake up at 5 a.m. and realise it is still pitch black
- Wait for some light and start the engine
- Raise anchor
- Celebrate the engine endurance (cf. Christmas in the engine room)
- Hoist sails
- Watch sunrise eating breakfast in the cockpit
- Greet young sailors as they wake up
- Check speed with engine on neutral
- Switch off engine
- Sail!
- Plug autopilot
- Help young sailors as they vomit their breakfast
- Lift their spirits inventing stupid knock-knock jokes
- Take pictures and videos
- Spot a whale squirt and flip fins
- Try to spot other marine animals
- Sail. Sail. Sail.
- Watch coastline getting closer
- Find iconic bay and anchor (e.g. Smokehouse Bay)
- Get a surprise spotting some friends bright yellow ‘Goldfinger’ boat
- Have lunch and soak in the feeling of achievement
- Get visit from Goldfinger’s crew and have drinks onboard Obelix
- Get interrupted by Zephyr all excited that someone is calling us on the radio
- Struggle with VHF poor reception to make plans with friends who were indeed calling us from another bay
- Jump on dinghy to go ashore
- Watch kids have fun on the swings and take hot shower
- Greet other friends as they’ve made it to Smokehouse Bay
- Go back to Obelix altogether
- Dress up
- Dance tango on deck
- Eat festive dinner (e.g. salmon toasts & cream cheese stuffed chili peppers for starters, duck confit and fried potatoes for main, and scorched almonds for dessert)
- Go back to beach and socialise
- Watch Thomas’ fire poi dance
- Retreat back to the boat well before midnight
- Snuggle under the blankets
- Hear the final countdown in the distance
- Smile
- Sleep
Early morning 
Whale watching 
Man-o-war passage 
Les zozos 
Swinging at Smokehouse Bay 
Reviews
Well worth throwing up breakfast for.
Zephyr
♫ This is gonna be the best day of my life, my li-i-i-i-i-ife ! ♪
Cover by Zephyr & Azur
Mum: Are you ok, Azur? What are you doing?
Azur: Yes I’m fine, I’m playing the best game ever…
Mum (intrigued): Oh, cool, what is it?
Azur: Spot the marine animals!
