Two days ago the Captain was getting ready for a dinghy run to Erica’s Seafood in Harpswell to satisfy our lobster craving (and those yummy lemon bars!) and he couldn’t find his flip flops. As I helped look for them, I realized I couldn’t find mine, either.
Ok, this boat is only 39’ long and everything has its place. Flip flops are either in a bucket on deck, the shoe pouch in our cabin, or the dinghy. They’ve been in one of those three places for almost a year. What the heck? Having scoured the boat and our memories, here’s what we’ve got:
- We definitely had flip flops in Rockland. That’s the last place we solidly recall wearing them.
- The kids’ shoes are still here (in the bucket on deck).
- Nothing else is missing from the dinghy (so not likely that we somehow lost two pairs of shoes out of there in rough seas, but not the loose life jacket or old line we had picked up).
- They aren’t with the dive gear (thinking maybe in the excitement of cutting the lobster pot line they got put away).
- We don’t recall leaving them on the swim platform (we’ve done this with snorkeling gear and hiking shoes while they dry if it’s calm, but can’t honestly recall drying flip flops there ever!).
So, we really don’t know what happened to them. We may have left them in the dinghy which would have made them easier to “walk” away, but still don’t know how/when that would have happened. We did stay in a cove where another boater had reported someone coming into their boat at night years ago, but we struggle to believe that’s possible.
Whatever happened, there are two pairs of Olu Kai sandals either floating somewhere off the coast of Maine, padding someone else’s feet, or mysteriously tucked away somewhere we haven’t found yet on the boat! So if you happen to see a pair of navy blue women’s or a pair of brown men’s Olu Kai flip flops floating around, let us know! 😂
Last known photo of my flips. ☹️
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