Day 213, Tuesday January 21st – a relaxing day on
Farmers Cay
We wake up to another sunny day after a very calm night at
anchor. We decide we will head into
Farmers Cay and do a run walk to get some exercise. To build on the exercise portion of the
morning we take the kayaks to shore.
We land at the beach just in from the dingy dock we landed
at the day before and Dawson heads off on a run around the island and Julie
heads off on a walk/run. We meet up
after about 40 minutes and compare notes on our explore of the island, needless
to say it was very much the same as the island is not that big. We walk over to Ocean Cabins to see if there is
some internet and to make use of the exchange library. We meet the owner, Terry which makes for
interesting conversation. He is from
Farmers Cay but has traveled a bit, his 1st wife was from Canada and
is back in Toronto with his daughter. We
trade our books in but no internet, Ocean Cabins is somewhat frugal with their
internet.
From Ocean Cabins we head back to the kayak and speak to one
of the locals. Julie discusses the sea
life with the man and learns the reasons the rays jump is to show man the
direction of a storm. Well maybe, I’m
just saying. We do see a number of rays
in the harbour, a turtle and a conch coral.
The conch coral has us kind of wondering, it is just a fenced inclusion
with some conch in it but it is well off the beach. We have seen conch tied to a dock or in a
cage close to the dock but not one off by itself in deeper water. Our questions are answered when a tour boat
comes in, the boat circles the little harbour with the tourist pointing out the
rays and turtles. The boat then stops
beside the conch coral and the operator dives in to harvest some fresh
conch. Not a bad side trip; see a few
rays, some turtles and see your conch salad being pulled out of the water.
We let the current and wind float us back to the mothership as
we peer through our peek a boo windows on the kayaks, hoping to find some
decent snorkelling areas. No luck, just
some boring sea grass. We grab the
coconut husking tools though and head to the beach to find a coconut. We are successful and it is excellent. We use the coconut milk to drink, and snack
on the coconut back on teh boat.
As we are snacking, Terry comes by and reattaches the
mooring lines to the cement hunks that are underwater around us. We had not known we anchored so close to the
mooring field as it was only the underwater anchors that were left. Now we are anchored in a mooring field which
is not good. Terry does not mind and
there are not many boats around so we decide to stay where we are. Shortly after Terry left, Jeff and some
friends pop over to put another mooring ball on the other side of us. Jeff also has a bunch of fish and lobster in
his boat and we negotiate to buy to lobster tails. Julie takes the bodies too to use for bait
and also find some meat in the shoulders.
We spend the late afternoon fishing in the bay using a spoon
with a bit of lobster as bait. No
luck. We don’t catch anything. No good reefs in the area. Oh well.
Back to the boat and Julie makes a seafood chowder for us to eat
tomorrow night as we already have pork chops thawed for the barbeque for
tonight.
A very busy day today.
We head to bed early as we are expecting high winds tonight.
Cheers
Dawson and Julie
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