Albie's Sea Shop • Below the Trap Door
Room Two — The Hidden Cavern
On the first floor of the Sea Shop, you found the old trap door set into the floorboards. You lifted it open… and there they were: worn stone steps winding down into the dark, lit only by swaying lanterns.
Down and down the stairs wind, carved straight through the cliff rock, each lantern throwing its glow a little deeper into the passage.
The air turns cool and salt-damp. Rope rails guide your hand along the stone. Then, at the very bottom, the narrow passage suddenly opens wide — into a vast, glowing cavern where turquoise water laps against the rock.
Welcome to Room Two
The second shop of Albie's Sea Shop — older, deeper, and far more mysterious than the one above. Hand-built model ships line the rock shelves, treasure spills from open chests, and a Viking longship hangs over water lit from below.
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“Tonight the moonlight glitters on the sea like magic. The wind dances across the water, pulling the sails and brushing against my cheeks.” This is how my wife describes our sail this evening on the eve of our 18th wedding anniversary!
The sunset on the water is beautiful. We are having fun taking pictures of each other, the boat, and the sun's afterglow. It is very enjoyable just relaxing and talking as the boat sails on its way.
We tack, and the wind catches the sails and pulls the boat over on its side slightly. Suddenly Janette exclaims: “We're falling!” I think it's so funny to see the look on my wife's face as she's describing all of this! I answer her: “It's just leaning. That's what sailboats do!”
Just as we are heading out to sea, I notice that the fish and the little breaking waves near the boat are creating little phosphorescent streaks across the water!
The ocean glows as if it is magical. Little phosphorescent trails from the fish flash by out across the water. Every breaking wave glimmers an eerie green, and Janette and I stand out in the cockpit, holding on to the life rail, watching! It is beautiful, like nothing I have seen before.
Though I had seen this bioluminescence before — it's never been quite like this. Suddenly the fish swim out from under the boat, and we see a trail of shining green. And then the waves disperse alongside the boat, and they light up!
We watch the waves out at sea break and instead of seeing white, we see this flash of green all along the tops of the waves — everywhere. It's so amazing!
Janette and I are having so much fun together. The lights from shore and the waves playing along the sides of the boat are relaxing to watch. But then Janette started to feel a little seasick, so I encouraged her to rest on the V-berth bed.
As she sleeps below, the wind is making the sails bellow out with the pressure. The constant breeze blowing at a steady rate, is pulling us along over the dark bumpy waves. And then the boat comes too far upwind and the sails crack like thunder. Waves lit by a faint glow, pass by without number. Lights off on the horizon — some white, some yellow, orange, red, and gold, flicker from shore.
Some other lights out in the deep, shine to us from a big ship anchored in the distance. The hills behind the shore lights are these black mysterious silhouettes on the skyline. We then sail back into the harbor and as we near our slip, we both notice the delightful patterns the wind is creating on the water.
In places, the wind is not present and creates this glossy and shiny look — void of motion. It looks like glass. But elsewhere, the wind streaks across the water, like creases in a blanket. “The wind dances across the water looking like it is being tickled and creates these goosebumps everywhere!” That's how Janette describes it, and I laughed!
If you liked this, read The Girl of My Dreams!
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~ Albie
