Feb 12th – It was another hot and sunny
day. This morning I had a look at the
steering components on the boat since it occasionally binds while we’re
underway. I believe I found the issue
which relates to the installation of the new rudder packing that was done by
Green Turtle Bay. The grounding cable on
the rudder post was tightened in such a way that it would rub on the wood causing
the steering to bind. I re-adjusted the
grounding cable and everything seems to work fine now. We had a visitor this morning at the back of
the boat … Robert yelled over to us to have a look and we’ve got some great
pictures. Robert went to pick up a
couple of friends that will be staying with him for a week or so while Maria
and I went on a water run and put 30 gals of water in the boat. Afterwards we met Robert, Brenda and their
friends at the sandbar for some socialization and on our way there we saw a
stingray perform a hard belly flop after jumping out of the water in front of
us. After the sandbar we went by dingy down
a river surrounded by mangroves and found a number of old sunken boats as well
as a homemade submarine. It was kind of
spooky back there! When we returned to
the boat Robert and Brenda invited us over for dinner with their boat
guests.
Feb 13th – Once again it was a hot and
sunny day. We went into town this
morning and I had my first land based shower since we left Palm Island marina
while Maria caught up on her internet using the free wifi provided at the dingy
dock. We’ll need to use the free wifi
more often during the next few days since we’ve almost used up our 10 GBs of
data this month. Maria called our US
cell phone provider to add another month to our plan and find out if they can
provide us with Bahamas coverage … which they can not. It sounds like the Bahamas cell and data plan
will be quite pricey thus we’ll have to determine how to modify our usage to
fit the plan. This may mean that I may
not be able to post Blog entries as often as I have been. Afterwards Maria and I walked into town to buy
some provisions from Home Depot, Walmart and Win Dixie. Then back to the boat. The dingy is getting lots of use here!
Feb 14th – It
was a hot and sunny day and the hottest Valentines day I’ve ever had. A bunch of Loopers went out on a couple boats
to a reef on the Atlantic side to go snorkeling. Artie and Laura “Leap of Faith” invited “Over
Ice”, their guests and us to join them on their boat … Thanks for the
ride! It was the most amazing snorkeling
that I’ve ever done … I saw a Caribbean lobster, turtles and fish of all colors and sizes (like on Finding Nemo) and luckily no sharks, however we did see a number of very large barracudas! The aquatic life wasn’t afraid of us thus it was really easy to get up close and personal. I only wish that I had an underwater camera so I could share it with our blog audience. Afterwards we went back to the marina and bought a big bag of crab claws for our Valentines dinner. They were a challenge to eat and we had shells flying everywhere as we tried to figure out the best way to eat them. They did taste good but they are too much work for the amount of meat you get from each one. I did figure out how not to eat them after I cut my finger while doing it the wrong way! My blog entry is late since we are very close to using this month’s cell data. I was planning on posting my blog using the free wifi at the dingy dock however I just haven’t had time. Maybe tomorrow.A visitor sitting on our Davit system |
The crew of "Over Ice" and their boat guests |
Entering a mangrove river at low tide |
There are many sunken boats in the river |
A homemade submarine in the river |
It's extremely shallow at low tide! |
Does anyone want a good deal on a used sailboat? |
It's narrow and spooky down this river |
"Over Ice" at night with the moon over the bow |
On "Leap of Faith" on the way out to the Reef |
Snorkeling on the reef |
Me and my snorkel buddy |
Horizon Chaser rafted on to us at the reef |
Baking in the hot sun |
I can float forever in this salty stuff! |
This guy wasn't afraid of me ... he started chasing me down the dock! |
Crab Claws for our Valentines dinner ... Yum but hard to eat! |
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