It's a chilly morning so I make hot oatmeal to start our day, today we go surfing... The guy at the surf shop told us that it would be waist to chest  and Carl wanted to surf New England so that's what today will bring. I am not any good on the board we brought for me and I don't feel like freezing so I won't bet getting in the water. Once we got all of our things ready to go and breakfast was over, we hopped in the dingy and headed for shore. Carl, Bella and myself hit the shore with surfboard in hand, plus a bag of all our stuff and put out our thumbs and began to hitchhike. Can you imagine what we looked like, but it didn't take long before we got our first ride. A guy named Matt in a pickup truck picked us up, Bella and I climbed in the back with the surfboard and Carl up front. He took us about 8 or 10 miles. Then told Carl we were really going the wrong way, that we were taking the long way around the island. Heck we didn't know, so scenic route it is...He dropped up in a State Park area, and it wasn't long before a cabbie pulled over. Carl told him we didn't have  any money to pay and he gave us a ride anyway. He was in a van and originally from the islands, he was pretty cool. He dropped us off in front of a graveyard and our next ride was a little old lady named Sandra, she was 85 years old. We couldn't believe it,  she was in a little Toyota so we had to hang the board out the window and hold it while she drove us to the beach. Yep, all the way, only it wasn't the right beach. Neither of us knew, so  I talked a girl from St. Pete, Fl with a pickup truck to take us down to the next beach She said we would have to walk about a 1/2 mile or more to get to where the surfing is and we did. The beach was beautiful it had high sand dunes, light brown sand and heavy surf. There were signs that said No Trespassing, that people here own the beach too, of course we didn't pay them any attention, we walked on till we got to the surf. Just as we got there we saw a seal in the water and all we thought about was SHARKS..... Glad I'm not going in... Carl suited up and headed for the water, it was waist to chest and he got some real good rides,not another person on the waves.. A surfers dream, to take any wave he can without having to fight the crowd , I was sorry I didn't go in. After a few hours it was time to try to catch a ride back to town. This was way out in the boneys, not much around. As we are walking off the beach we see another surfer coming to check out the waves. Carl goes over to talk to him while I keep an eye on the surfboard and dog. He comes back to say that he is gonna give us a ride to the next town, only he has to stop and get a trailer to leave in the town for tomorrow. What luck, we didn't even have to put our thumbs out. As we  are riding along , we tell him about the other people who picked us up and it turns out that Sandra was his mother.. That's right, his mom. It's a small island after all..Sandra told us how she bought 69 acres and a house in 1949  for $6,000...on this island . Her son told us how she gave each of the kids some land after her husband died, and 2 of his sisters sold off theirs and are millionaires. Now his mother has people with these new homes so close it is like looking in on her. His sisters moved to Vermont because the island wasn't rural anymore... Aren't they part of the reason it isn't...When we got to the next town we were hungry so we stopped for a piece of pizza , then back on the road. We didn't have to wait long, when a nice lady named Donna picked us up and took us all the way back to where we left the dingy.We thanked her and were off. Back at the boat we put everything back in place, then packed up to head to the free showers by the dock. This was amazing, people come in cars , bicycles, or walk up to this shower. It appears lots of people in this town use it. We had to wait because it was full when we arrived. So we swung on the swings while we waited.. The joy of being kids...Back on the boat we played a game of domino's , which was very close, 3 points apart, Carl still won. We got to bed early as it will be a good day to make it to our next port before the storms head in. Southward we go, getting closer each day of travel.