Rubber duckie to Amalfi

Adam at the helm of the rubber duckie
Thursday 14th September 2006
Adam had arranged to hire a ‘rubber duckie’ for a trip along the coast to Amalfi to see the views of the coast from the sea side. It was about three metres long with a helm position for the captain. It is described as an inflatable, but it has a fibre glass bottom to it making it more rigid and safer. We picked up the boat from the beachfront at Positano with Adam hiring it for two hours. As we walked down the pontoon to the boat I mentioned to Sheila, “they are a bit of a bumpy ride, no matter how flat the sea is”.
“Don’t try and moor anywhere along the coast and always stay 100 metres away from the shore because of rocks, and keep an eye on the weather as it looks like it might change” were the ‘sage’ words of advice form the boat owner as we left.
There was a very slight chop, but this was translated by Sheila to a force ten gale as the boat provided a little bumpy ride that I had predicted. The views were very good and we managed to get along the coast to Amalfi, before Sheila’s strident pleas to go back were supported enough by Rosalind and Adam was convinced that a return to Positano was the least of many evils. Though of course the deputy captains insisted that Adam was driving too fast or too close to the rocks, we tootled around off Positano beach to use up some more of the time of the hire and then disembarked and went for a swim off the beach.
It was quite cool and the pebbles were very sharp, Rosalind decided not to swim and Sheila did not last long as she was unable to keep her footing on the pebbles, my observation that “it’s just like having a foot massage” did nothing to improve my standing nor Sheila’s as I had to help her ashore.
Sheila and I had dinner at the villa while Adam and Rosalind went to ‘Sirenuse’ a hotel restaurant that has a very good reputation. Sadly Adam and Rosalind report that it may deserve a reputation; but not a good one the menu was again very limited and very over priced. However it was a chance for them to get dressed up and go out on their own for a change.
The photos of the day and night are as follows:
href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7450/1861/1600/835791/PIC01460.jpg"> Sheila in the bow
Rosalind

Note the hole in the cliff under a couple of villas I think a trip to the cellar could have been very interesting

Rosalind with Amalfi in the background
On our way back from Amalfi to Positano

I am bowing out in front of Positano
Sheila in the bow
A reminder of the seven hundred steps that are part of the climb back up to the villa