What a wonderful birthday! Sue cooked multigrain pancakes and we had them with the real maple syrup, unavailable here, that Jon had brought with him. We then went for a beach walk and exploration, shelling and going to the ocean side of a neighboring motu. Jon and I then helped several boats with their mooring lines as they came into the area. We later snorkeled the reef nearby, seeing eels, grouper, and multitudes of tropical fish. For dinner, Valentine and Gaston had suggested we use the restaurant area for a cruisers potluck, and all the boats in the anchorage participated. There was freshly caught mahi mahi, chicken stew, rice, couscous, cornbread, baguettes, pate on homemade bread, cole slaw and other food there. Everyone sang Happy Birthday to me in English and then French, and one couple even sang it in Portuguese! For dessert, there was chocolate covered coconut cake, an upside down pineapple cake, a banana tort, and a peach broulee. We were all stuffed! Valentine and Gaston gave me a beautiful shell necklace and a perfectly polished pearl shell, and our cruiser friends gave me unexpected, and much appreciated, gifts of rum, fishing lures, a red flare and an LED finger flashlight! We then watched a slide show on Sherry's computer of their recent dives; just beautiful! A very memorable evening, and tomorrow morning there's a beach clean up scheduled at 1000. Always something going on, and people coming and going here in Anse Amyot.
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