We woke up early and Julie baked muffins and served eggs for
Greg’s last meal on the boat. We dinghy
over at 7:30 for Greg to catch the 8:00 ferry to get to Marsh Harbour to catch
his flight to Nassau then Freeport then Miami in a couple days where he will
meet his buddy Rick and they head off to the BVI’s where Rick has a boat. We will miss Greg as he has been a wonderful
source of knowledge and just an all round great guest/friend/crewmate.
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| Rob, Julie, Dawson, Greg |
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| Thanks Greg |
We work for the morning tackling cleaning the stainless,
cooking, and investigating the watermaker problems. Dawson has agreed to work only until noon and
then we are going for a hike and picnic along the Man O War Island. Dawson pulls the pump and sure enough there
is a crack in the housing. He farts
around with it a bit and gets an email and some pictures off to the
manufacturer. Of course it is waranteed
if we were the original owner, but will cost us over a thousand dollars to
fix. We can buy a lot of water for a
thousand dollars, but Dawson would like to have a working watermaker on board
so most likely we will send it off once we get to Marsh Harbour.
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| Golf Cart highway |
It is now 1:00 so we eat our picnic on the
boat and head off by 1:30 on our hike.
The beauty of these hikes is the islands get narrow enough that we are
walking along with the Atlantic on one side of us and the Sea of Abaco on the
other. This island is very neat, clean
and beautiful. Most people we see are
cleaning up properties awaiting the owners to arrive over the next couple of
weeks. We walk about 2 miles and stop
for a picnic beer that we had brought with us.
This is a dry island. There are
no liquor or beer sales in stores or restaurants. It is not illegal to have it, you just can’t
get it unless you brought it.
Julie has also brought her hair cutting tools as it is time
to trim Dawson’s mop and we don’t want to do it on the boat. This goes quite well considering we can’t
find the correct scissors and the ones we have brought are very bad.
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| Tin Alligator |
On our way back from the hike we chat to someone cleaning
conch. Conch are very plentiful and on
all the menus. We find it a bit rubbery
similar to calamari, but tasteful enough.
Generally it is served battered though so not the healthiest choice on
the menu.
We head back to the mothership by about 4, and do some
planning for our Marsh Harbour trip in the morning. We need to time the tide so as not to get
grounded on our exit.
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
Beautiful pictures!!!
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