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Saturday 4 June – part eleven: I’ll get you on that…
Finally, we were on our way back up from the Needles…
… taking our time to admire the various bits of footwear that didn’t make it back to the top with their owners!
I was fascinated by how the bushes here had grown. I guess they were swept back by the wind.
We had a look in the sand shop, but decided as we did this before, it wasn’t worth doing the same thing again. We also looked in the main shop, and got a fridge magnet, and Mark found a couple of cheap belts, so he was happy.
We saw the cows again on the way out…
… and we headed over to Yarmouth, where we were due to catch the ferry back from…
We figured it would be the same story as this morning, in that we’d check in, and they’d get us on the next available one. Well, sadly it wasn’t quite the same, and we were told in no uncertain terms that we wouldn’t be able to get on the 4:00pm, but to come back at 4:15pm and he’d “get us on that”.
As that was almost an hour away, Mark decided we’d drive to Cowes, so we set off…
After 15 minutes, I didn’t think we were getting very far, and I looked up our position on Google Maps. We were still so far away from Cowes, it just wasn’t funny. I figured we’d get there, and literally have to turn round and come back again, so what was the point? We turned around at that point, and made our way back to Yarmouth.
We parked up by the ferry terminal, and paid for half an hour’s parking, and headed into the harbour office, where they had restrooms, along with shower facilities. It was certainly packed with lots of useful facilities for boat owners. I have worked at somewhere before that had a marina, and this is much better than their facilities.
I wandered around and took a few photos…
… then we chilled in the car for a few minutes. Once we got to 4:10pm, we headed back over to the booth, and he sent us over to lane 4. We were the second car in line, and I figured we stood a reasonable chance of getting on the 5:00pm sailing.
As we sat there, we both commented how hot we were, and when we looked at each other’s faces, oh my goodness they were red! I could only assume we’d got wind burnt on the chairlift, and possibly the sailing on the way out this morning as well. It couldn’t be sunburn, given there really hadn’t been enough sun for that. I said to Mark that as we had 40 minutes until the next sailing, I’d go and see if I could find a chemist, and get some aftersun lotion, as guess what the one thing was we didn’t have with us (apart from our passports of course ) – you got it, aftersun lotion.
I headed off to explore, and immediately saw a chemist’s sign, and found the sweetest town…
I managed to pick up some aftersun lotion for cheaper than I can usually get through the major chain stores, so I was very pleased with that, and headed back to the car to wait for the 5:00pm ferry to come in. Let’s just say when we applied the aftersun, we immediately knew about it! It contained menthol, and it was very cooling, but it was also a bit of a shock to the system, but the most important thing was it did the trick.
The worst sunburn I ever had was earned on a completely cloudy day. The Rays that burn you are still present through the clouds. Hopefully you were feeling better after that slap of menthol.
I can't believe all the nautical flags on those boats. I've never seen so many on boats just sitting in a marina. Wonder if they were getting ready for some kind of regatta?
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The worst sunburn I ever had was earned on a completely cloudy day. The Rays that burn you are still present through the clouds.
Oh trust me, I do know that, it's just so rare to burn in this country on a cloudy day...
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Hopefully you were feeling better after that slap of menthol.
Oh my goodness that was just what we needed!
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I can't believe all the nautical flags on those boats. I've never seen so many on boats just sitting in a marina. Wonder if they were getting ready for some kind of regatta?
That's what we figured as well. They all seemed to relate to previous years and we reckoned this year's must have been about to take place.
As it did, I spotted a bird, and was photographing him, when he took off!
Then we watched lots and lots of cars boarding…
We did ask one of the staff if we’d make it on. First, he said to us that it would be tight, then he changed his mind and said we should be fine. After a certain amount of time, they raised the decks with the first set of cars on – very surreal to watch.
We were told at one point to move up, and we got excited, but then they started to take more cars from the other lanes, which were the ones booked on this sailing. We were the first standby at this point. When those had boarded, we heard the radios say that they could take another six cars. Yay, we’re on!
It was exceptionally weird to drive under this, knowing this was another car deck above us…
We headed up to the passenger lounge…
…. and as I wasn’t getting the greatest photos through the window, I headed up to the sun deck to get some shots from there as we sailed away.
We saw this guy, who was struggling to right his boat. I understand from something one of the other passengers said that he did get it righted in the end.
Finally, the sun was shining:
Before we knew it, we were seeing the mainland. This trip seemed to be even shorter than the one we took this morning. We came into a beautiful harbour…
We made our way off the boat…
… and into the New Forest…
We did see some ponies…
I didn’t take many photos after that, as I got on with the trip report, and Mark put his feet down. I figured I didn’t want to know what sort of speed we were doing.
I did get the bonus of seeing some of my friends along the M25…
We made it home by 7:50pm, which was really good going. The first thing I did was check the passports were there, and yes, they were. Phew! I just had completely forgotten them and they had stayed in their safe place all along. We hauled everything inside, and then ordered dinner. We had take away, with me getting pizza, and Mark getting kebab, and we caught up on a couple of things on the TV, before heading to bed. We’d be heading back where we’d come from tomorrow morning, but at least this time, we’d be armed with our passports, and finally able to head off on our cruise…
The weather today was dry, but cloudy and humid, with temperatures in the low 20s. The best thing today was spending the day on the Isle of Wight. The worst thing today was leaving the passports at home. Today we tried visiting Osborne House And the result was it’s a stunning place, and well worth seeing. The most magical moment today was our ferry crossing over to the Isle of Wight.
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Mental note should Chez ever come to visit... tell all local "chemists" to stock up as Chez will be making multiple trips during her visit! My goodness, between Mark's ear, his ankle, and your sunburn, you were quite the boon for local business.
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I could only assume we’d got wind burnt on the chairlift, and possibly the sailing on the way out this morning as well. It couldn’t be sunburn, given there really hadn’t been enough sun for that. I said to Mark that as we had 40 minutes until the next sailing, I’d go and see if I could find a chemist, and get some aftersun lotion, as guess what the one thing was we didn’t have with us (apart from our passports of course 
) – you got it, aftersun lotion. 
It contained menthol, and it was very cooling, but it was also a bit of a shock to the system, but the most important thing was it did the trick. 
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