The weather has passed and things are good. It blew pretty hard for a few days and was actually kinda rainy for over a day. The plus side is that the rain washed all the salt off the boat and gave us a chance to add some rain water to the water tank.
The last couple of days have been breezy, but sunny and warm. We’ve been doing a lot of snorkeling as per usual. We also made our second trip across the bay into town.
When we started out we had a very light breeze behind us so it was a nice dry ride. We hit the liquor store where they were having a sale on rum. Then it was off for a little bit of walking around and then lunch. Lunch was at Eddie’s Edgewater. The front half of the building is kind of like a working mans bar while the back half is a
While we were walking back from lunch I became aware that the wind had picked up a bit. When we dinghied out of the pond and under the small bridge we headed straight into a maelstrom. When we cleared the bridge it became obvious that we were in for a long, slow wet ride home.
The first 200 yards is fairly shallow so the waves tend to stand up and break. Our dinghy is underpowered as it is, so with the dinghy loaded down with Christy and I along with groceries and 80 pounds of water we had picked up it was miserable. The ride took close to half an hour and we were as wet as if we had swum home, seriously.
The dinghy had about 6 inches of water in it when we got back to the boat. It would have taken me 30 minutes to bail it out, so after dropping Christy, the wet groceries and our water jugs off at the boat I took the dinghy in to shore. The dinghy was so heavy that I couldn’t pull it up on shore. So I had to pull out the drain plug and let the water drain bit by bit. As some water drained the dinghy became lighter so I could drag it higher up the beach. Eventually it was high and dry and able to drain completely.
Since I was already soaked I got our scrubber out, put on my fins and snorkel and cleaned the bottom of the boat. I also noticed that our propeller zinc had reached the end of its useful life so I replaced that as well.
Last night there was a DJ playing music at a local beach front pub for Valentines Day. The Chat & Chill is fairly famous so since there was a party and the winds had died a bit we decided to drop in for a while and check it out. We ended up having a great time and our good friend, Captain Rumboy took time out of his busy schedule to drop in for a visit. There were even unconfirmed reported sightings of Bill Dancing About (see Cruisers Dictionary entry from December 11, 2006).
While we’re on the subject of drinking…….. We use the price of a glass of wine as an indicator of how expensive a pub was. Happy Hour prices in the $2.50 to $3.00 range were outstanding. $3.50 to $4.00 was average and anything above that was exorbitant.
A glass of wine (a small plastic glass) at the Chat & Chill is 8 freaking dollars. Okay, okay so maybe since we’re in a foreign country the wine glass comparo is unfair. So we went to the drinking mans Bell Curve and started comparing the price of rum drinks. Since rum is so cheap here in the Bahamas this should be a better indicator of what’s what. A non descript “Rum Punch” at the Chat & Chill was again, that’s right, 8 freaking dollars. I can buy an entire bottle of decent rum for 8 dollars.
Christy had the foresight to bring her own wine in a “bottle”. After a couple of $4 beers it was time to put the brakes on…..and as luck would have it a more experienced friend revealed the secret of economic drinking. So I drank $2 Cokes that were splashed with rum from the bottle he had smuggled in. It was kind of like being a teenager again.
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