Boy, is everything more expensive on the island! I a lot of money on a meal yesterday evening. I walked over to the next town, Kizmit(?), because they actually have a couple restaurants. Actually, there is a deli-grocery story here in Saltaire and the restaurant across the board-walk from the rectory, but it is the Saltiare Yacht Club, and, well, we don't belong.
So, I order a glass of wine in Kizmit before looking at the prices of the dinners. Wow! The cheapest thing is plain pasta for $17.00 bucks. My simple meal was $31.00 plus tip. Now, the wine was cheaper than in New York City, but that ain't sayin' much. Oh well.
Since there is no TV, I fell asleep when the sun went down and promptly woke up when it came up. By 9:00 am, I had already showered, had a cup of coffee on the dock as I read with some Oreos, opened the church and read morning prayer, taken an walk on the beach, gone to the store. It was a productive morning.
While sitting on the dock, I watched a white water bird of some kind fish. He would look intently into the water and, whooosh, drive his head into the water and pull up a tiny fish. I couldn't even see those tiny little fish. One after another he caught fish and ate. Up and down the shore he went. It was nice being able to just watch something like that for an "extended" period of time. I took a nice, long walk along the beach. As my friend Jason (the Barefoot Priest) said, it is a great place to be re-energized!
I'm a bit sunburned. I should be nicely red for mass tomorrow.
