Day 201, Thursday Jan 9th – Mail boat day at Black Point

Day 201, Thursday Jan 9^th – Mail boat day at Black Point

We again wake up to a beautiful day.  The plan is to do some chores around the boat and nip into town once the mail boat comes in and has dropped off some supplied.

Mail boat with supplies

Julie is working on a bag for storage of the fenders along the stern rail and Dawson returns to the project of sanding the bow sprit for re-varnishing.  Both these jobs have been planned for a long time but have not been completed.  We have decided to hang out here for a week as we have been on the move a fair bit.

We decide about mid morning to move the boat closer to the south side of the bay, to provide better access to the shore along with improved wi fi, however just as we plan to make the move we see the mail boat coming in.  We decide to make the move once the boat is along the dock.  The arrival of the mail boat causes a fair bit of excitement on the dock so we head in to check it out.  It is a neat scene with everyone picking up the items they have ordered from Nassau: fruits and vegetables, groceries, building supplies and even two new bikes for two of the young children.  The bikes are late Christmas presents for the children and they are grinning ear to ear.  The young lads eyes are as big as saucers as he pushes his bike through the crowd.

Boy with new bike

We head into the grocery store but the supplies have yet to be unpacked and priced so we head over to the local bar, Scorpios for happy hour.  There is now talk that there is a 2^nd boat coming in so even more supplies.  The bar is packed with cruisers, with only a sprinkling of locals.  We partake in the rum punch for the 1^st drink and then wisely move over to beer for the next one.  It is the 1^st cruiser bar we have been to and it is quite the scene.  We speak with a bunch of other cruisers from 1^st timers like ourselves to the ones who have been doing it for 20 years.

Around 6 we leave the bar and notice that some of the cruisers are lined up at the supermarket.  This is in our opinion bad form, as the store owners have lots of work to do before starting to sell stuff from the boat that just unloaded.  We hope that they realize this and leave to come back in the morning.  Black Point does alot for us cruisers free garbage drop off, free water, free wi fi, it just does not seem right to push for service after 5 pm.

The trip back to the boat was good although with 30 boats at anchor it took a couple of minutes to pick out Jazzebelle.  We finish off the excellent Tuna Casserole, have a game of king’s cribbage and an exciting game of dominos and off to bed.

Cheers

Dawson and Julie