Bailey Island is a two and half hour drive from our house. We’d been here years ago when invited by Adam and Tricia, and, quite naturally, jumped at this most recent offer.

With every ocean visit we wonder why we didn’t invest in property twenty-five years ago. Shacks with a view sell for nearly a half million. The simple answer is we can’t afford it now and we couldn’t then.

Diane water walks without her sister, Susan, who would have had a hard time immersed in such chilly water for forty minutes.