E.S. "Gordon" Lacey - Diary 2

a rush ashore, and when one of the leaders of our gallant band did get ashore, he found himself looking down the muzzle of a Yank sentries rifle, and so the the strike had a tame ending. After we anchored in the bay we were told that we were to go ashore to a beach for a swim, so that

cheered us up a bit. We landed on a strip of beach fringed with cocoanuts and all kinds of tropical plants. There was not much swimmi -ng done, for as soon as we got near the beach, all of us, who could swim dived in and made for the shore, and before long there was a crowd of

naked men runn -ing about among the palms. A few of us got together and went inland a bit, through the jungle where we soon found a low cocoanut palm, and got to work knocking off the green nuts. The milk out of a green nut is delicious. We had a feast of nuts ashore, and then

gathered some to take back on board with us. We waited in the bay for the rest of the convoy, which consisted of six troopers and an American cruiser. We weighed anchor and steamed out of Limon Bay on Saturday morning Sept 8th. The six boats in the convoy were A28 "Miltiades" "Themesticles"

"Medic" "Rauhine" "Mokoia" "Anchises" and the U.S. Cruiser "Charleston". Nothing exciting happened until the following Saturday 15th. When we sighted Bermuda. The island is rather low lying, but as we did not get very close in shore we could not see very much of the place. We lay at anchor nearly all day, and