This is the Marina at Solenzara.  Our boat is third from the left.

The Annual Theme Poem

Just as we post an allegorical image for you to decipher, so too do we provide you with a little touch of cultural poetic enlightenment.

A Life on the Ocean Wave

A LIFE on the ocean wave,

A home on the rolling deep,

Where the scattered waters rave,

And the winds their revels keep!

Like an eagle caged, I pine

On this dull, unchanging shore:

Oh! give me the flashing brine,

The spray and the tempest's roar!

Once more on the deck I stand

Of my own swift-gliding craft:

Set sail! farewell to the land!

The gale follows fair abaft.

We shoot through the sparkling foam

Like an ocean-bird set free; --

Like the ocean-bird, our home

We'll find far out on the sea.

The land is no longer in view,

The clouds have begun to frown;

But with a stout vessel and crew,

We'll say, Let the storm come down!

And the song of our hearts shall be,

While the winds and the waters rave,

A home on the rolling sea!

A life on the ocean wave!

Epes Sargent

You can sing along to the music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlSXeo-sBY