They have to get the tea, at least. If they take the boat, they can perhaps take their time getting to the beach. They may even - here's a thought - have time to ask PERMISSION to take the boat.
Imagine how dull stories like this would be if all the characters felt they always had to "ask permission" first before taking any action. More often than not any such requests would just be denied, no matter how nicely and politely they were made. That's why characters generally DON'T ask permission. They just DO what has to be done.
Wait, the spacefaring, educated adult can not swim? :o
And dint wanted to learn it after they get stranded?
Such lazyness.
There may not have been much need to swim during the decades-long space voyage, and it may not have been an essential part of the mission planners' selection criteria.
Also, for much of the time since their arrival, she's been suffering from depression, and didn't seem to have had the motivation to do much.
Swimming isn't an essential spacefaring skill (nor a matter of education) and it likely wasn't deemed an essential skill for colonists because they quickly started building roads and bridges for vehicular travel.
If she never planned to leave the safety of her colony after surviving the chaos that followed the event, learning to swim likely wouldn't seem important. (Of course, she did leave, so now it IS important, but too late now...)
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