Jan. 10-15. George Town

Jan. 11-13

Spent the last couple of days sitting on the boat.  We've been getting quite a few showers and very high winds (33kts two nights ago).  That, along with me still not feeling 100% has given me no desire to go ashore.  We met some really nice people on Star Shot, the boat beside us.  They have been sailing for a few years and are headed to the Turks and Caicos tomorrow.

We went into town today, but the grocery store shelves were bare of bread, milk and produce...all the things we were looking for.  They thought the supply truck would come later today, but we didn't want to hang around and wait.  We did manage to do our laundry, and top up the water and fuel.   I would love to get a picture of the little bridge we have to dinghy under to get to the dinghy dock, but we get so wet going through, I don't want to take my ipad.  It can be a pretty fun ride if the tides and winds are right!  We have yet to get back to our boat without getting drenched.

I made some white bread today, and it's the best I've made yet.  I even got creative and made a couple of braided loafs with cinnamon and pecans....soooo good!


Jan. 14

Thunder and lightning and lots and lots of rain last night.  Did not get a lot of sleep....again!  We were going to go snorkelling but the sky is very black.  Looks like today will be good for changing the oil....yeah! :(

Yup, we got the oil changed, and then we sat on the boat waiting for the pump-out boat to come pick it up.  He shows up at 4:30!  Glad we didn't have any big plans.


Jan. 15

What a great day!  We met CKll at 9am and went to the end of Stocking Island to go snorkelling.  I'm not a big fan of snorkelling and for the first while I was sticking to the white  sandy areas.  Then Mark comes up with a bunch of shells and a beautiful conch.  He said all the good stuff was in the grass.  So I bite the bullet and head off the the dark patches.  Still not much, a great sea biscuit that I left because I thought it was still alive, but learn later it wasn't,  and a large conch that I left because I thought it was dead, but wasn't.  
At the same time I notice that I have a friend watching me.  Turns out I was being followed by a barracuda.  I was  not impressed, but he kept his distance to about 8' from me.
When I told everyone about the large conch, we all decided to go try and find it again.  Never thought we would, but oleEagle Eye Mark spotted it.  Such a sweetheart, he left it for me to retrieve.  Not as big as I thought, and not the great colours of others, but it's mine!  It is currently in the freezer to get the meat out, and we are looking forward to conch fritters tomorrow in Long Island.

We ran into Heather and Richard at the Chat and Chill today.  They arrived at Vollyball Beach yesterday.