Day 174, Friday December 13th
Woke up to a beautiful day once again here in the exciting
town of Marsh Harbour. It had been
fairly windy during the night but the harbour has protection from anything but
a west wind, so no problems sleeping.
Julie did get up at low tide ~11:00 at night to check the depth under
us, the depth sounder showed we had a almost a foot below so she came back to
bed. We are not too concerned about
grounding out at anchor as we would just sit on the keel in the mud.
Marsh Harbour is not a great vacation spot but is a good
town for doing errands so at the crack of 10 we are off. 1st stop laundry at Harbour View
Marina, here you can dinghy right up to the laundry room door and use the
Snappas’s (the bar next door) internet to post some blogs and do some
emails. We haul the laundry back to boat
and head back in to pick up some groceries.
Before groceries we stop at Mangoes Restaurant for lunch and to get
their wi fi pass word. We strike up a
conversation with another couple at the table beside us and end up joining them
for lunch. They are cruisers as well and
are from Halifax, Jeff and Debbie of Sea Sparrow. They had just made the Abacos the week before. Their arrival was overshadowed by the
passing of their dog the day after they arrived. They invite us over for sundowners and we
both head off to do our errands.
We head into town to do some grocery shopping and to pick up
some varnish for the boat. Marsh Harbour
has two grocery stores one being more of a bulk store than the other; although
they are both owned by the same company Maxwell. We go to the bulk store and pick up some supplies;
the high light of the visit is seeing a pallet full of honey buns. This is something that Dawson would occasionally
buy from a vending machine at the mine.
They were only good as long as the lard was still warm from being
nuked. Anyway it was the 1st
time we had seen this many honey buns in this abundance.
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| A gross of honey buns, or is that gross honey buns? |
We are back to the boat around 3, read a bit and then head
over to Sea Sparrow for sundowners. We
have a Dark and Stormy each along with a tour of Debbie and Jeff’s Boat a Leopard
40 which is a Catamaran. We are both
very impressed with the room afforded by a catamaran and agree that it is the
perfect boat for the sea of Abaco. We head into Snappas Bar and Grill for Happy
Hour, with the added benefit of live music as it is the bar’s owner’s
birthday. We have a couple of beers,
listen to an acoustic singer/guitarist followed by a sax player. Then we get word there are complimentary appetizers. You
can’t get much better than that. Jeff
stated that if only we could pick up free wireless on boat we would be in
Cruisers Nirvana. By 7 we are heading
back to the boat, a coffee and a quick game of cribbage and off to bed.
Cheers
Dawson and Julie
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