Day 190, Sunday December 29th – Goodbye to Ross
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| Christmas tree downtown Nassau |
Today we say good bye to Ross. We have the morning to have a bit more of a
look around Nassau so decide to walk to the downtown area. Most of the shops are closed on the way and
we see some “tired” looking Nassau, however once we get to the part of downtown
that hosts the cruise ships everything is open.
We really aren’t interested in shopping, so we head to a lunch location
on the waterfront. We people watch from
here and see the many tour boats just loaded up. There are 2 catamarans about 50 foot long and
each of them have about 40 people on them.
They just cruise up the harbour, beach for a little while then send
their drinking patrons on their way.
They don’t even put the sails up so we really don’t get it as far as the
attraction. I guess we are just too
spoiled having the opportunity to cruise the channel ourselves but doing just
to get somewhere vs. enjoying the harbour itself.
There are 4 cruise ships in port and they disgorge there
mass of people for their 2.5 hours ashore to allow the shopping for island
trinkets, tour and a beer. We are
spoiled.
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| Cruise ships in port |
We shop at a cigar store, but they only seem to be selling
Cuban cigars and Ross is looking to buy some for him and his buddies for Vegas,
so Cuban is not an option. (Later on we
are told they are all fakes anyways).
We
walk back to the boat and work up quite a sweat. It is extremely hot and humid here in
Nassau. The taxi is scheduled to pick
Ross up at 1:30 so he only has about 10 minutes to finish tossing his stuff
into his travel bags. Soon we are saying
good bye. It has been a fabulous quality
visit. Hard to avoid lots of
conversation when you are travelling on a 40 foot sailboat for 2 weeks.
Now it is time to do some work that we have been putting
off. Dawson starts installing a new
clutch for our furling lines so that we can reef the furling in and the clutch
will hold the line. Previous to this
there was minimal tackle to use if you wanted to adjust or reef the
headsail. Julie sets to “cleaning” the
boat in anticipation of our next company.
We have a nice shrimp pasta for dinner, as the shrimp was
moved in the freezer and thawed therefore got moved up on the menu. We then head over to starbucks to use their
internet and enjoy a coffee so we can post some blogs. Sorry we have been so far behind. Starbucks here provides a code that is good
for 1 hour only and true to form in exactly 1 hour we are booted off. We head back to the boat for our nightly
Kings Cribbage Game that we have not been having since Ross and Blake joined us
as they have poo pooed that game.
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
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