The damp and fog of the
previous day had given way to a glorious cold and crisp day, with a bright blue
sky, all too soon Sam, Emma and the boys’ stay on the Island had come to an
end, the time had come for them to return to the mainland.
They were to spend the next
two weeks visiting Emma’s family and catching up with friends.
Molly and Danny would meet up
with them on the 17th in Abbottsford and they would spend three days seeing the
sites of the Town before their guests had to return to Australia.
Arielle Nicolas had been
standing on the quayside for about ten minutes, she was always early, when she
saw Harry approaching and then her heart sank when she saw his brother Sam and
Nikki Harrison following him, she had hoped it would be just the two of them.
However, she was much happier
as soon as she found out that Nikki and Sam were just going to the island to
fly the drone and get some shots of the landmarks, Cabot Point Lighthouse,
Cabot Town, St Giles Chapel, Norman Rock, the Seaview Hotel for Sam’s business
and nature and landscape shots for her artwork.
So
as Phil Holgate started the engines of the Ocean Breeze Water Taxi, they got
aboard, and she and Harry sat together as the boat moved off down the Spanish
River towards the open water and it was a
smooth ride across the dead calm sea.
The Shaw Brothers ferry, the
Empress Victoria, was on the jetty at Cabot Town, and Phil brought the launch
to a halt beside the small quayside.
Cabot Town itself was
actually just a hamlet, with a café, and a General Store/Post Office, from
there Sam and Nikki went to the North of the Island where they were going to
start filming while Arielle and Harry went South to the farthest end of Broad
Beach Sands, then they walked back up the full length of the beach and back up
the rocky path to the lane past the Seaview Hotel which led to the
meteorological station and then they walked inland to Hastings Lake to have
their picnic lunch.
Nikki and Sam meanwhile had
worked their way down to Cabot Point and filmed the Lighthouse and were making
their way back to the café to get some lunch.
When they got to the southern
end of the lake, they put the drone up again to get some shots of the lake and
the woods from a different angle.
“Oh my God!” Nikki said, “I
wasn’t expecting to see that.”
“See what?” Sam asked.
“Here have a look” she said.
“Bless me” Sam said as he saw
the image of his big brother kissing the Vicar by the water’s edge. “Good for
him”
“Good for her” Nikki
corrected him.
An hour later they were
sitting in the café eating bacon sandwiches when Nikki gave Sam a nudge and
nodded towards the window where she could see Harry and the Vicar walking along
the lane holding hands.
“I bet he’s glad I made him
come to the island now” Sam said.
“So’s the Vicar” she said,
and they both laughed.
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