Seabbatical Adventures: Day 159, Thursday November 28

Day 159, Thursday November 28

Diane and Catherine watching the fishing fun

Dawson casting

We decide to relocate to the harbour vs. staying in the marina. We have enjoyed our time at the resort, but enough eating at restaurants etc. We top up our water tanks. It costs 20 cents a gallon so we miss our watermaker. Dawson settles up our bill. We can reduce our 60 dollar a day dock fee by eating and drinking at the resort so we have tried to make sure we utilize this option and are pleased to find out our food and drink bill is $7 more than our $240 dockage which means the dockage was free. We still had a $340 bill between water, electricity, and gratuities and our dining bill.

It is a bit windy, but we have good ground tackle and trust our anchoring so we push off our lines around 11 with the help of our neighbours. We have about 8 lines holding us in place and we have to decide which ones get removed first. There are also posts vs. finger docks and horn cleats so we have to figure out how to get disengaged from them while not drifting. We get our neighbour Julian to hold a line from his boat and that will prevent us from going to the left as the wind is blowing from the right. All goes well and soon enough we are anchored.

After an hour it is time to go for our surf fishing experience. Pat and Diane are showing us where they go surf fishing which consists of casting from shore to just beyond the reef. Catherine picks us up and drives us to the beach on the Atlantic side of the island.

Pat and Julie casting

Julie's scorpion fish

Our bait is squid and we are soon catching some fish. Julie wins the dangerous fish award, Pat wins the most fish caught award and Dawson wins the prettiest fish award. Catherine wins the most rays caught (sun rays, not the fish kind of ray). Pat and Diane own some fish of the Caribbean books and we excitedly identify every fish caught. They are all different and we need to figure out if they are edible. Julie’s is a scorpion fish, Dawson’s is a grunt fish, Pat catches a barjack and we think some kind of trigger fish (which turns out to be a porgy).

After fishing we head to town for our Thanksgiving dinner. It is the American holiday and the town here is cooking and lighting their Christmas lights. The dinner is not something to brag about, however it is a fun experience. The local kids are pushing each other around in a riding toy jeep and one of the wheels is half missing so it is funny to watch.

A fabulous day in the Bahamas.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson