A big cold front is on its way this weekend (which means heavy wind, not cold) so we took advantage of the calm day to speed across the harbor to town per dinghy. We walked 1 1/2 miles north along Queens Highway—an impressive name for a two lane road with narrow shoulders—with speeding cars nipping at our heels. Our goal was the new Napa store and a hardware store.

On our way we stopped for lunch at Shirley’s Fish Fry on the waterfront, with a view of a rusting hulk of a barge. The food made up for what the view was lacking. A couple from s/v Tilt, who we met at happy hour on Sand Dollar Beach last evening, arrived per dinghy and joined us at our table. They’re from Michigan and it’s their 13th year wintering in Georgetown.

They warned us about walking along the road, given the crazy drivers. A Canadian couple had been killed while walking along the road a few years ago, they told us. I researched the story online when we got home: it happened at 10 pm.

While waiting outside for Burger to pay for two heavy containers of engine oil, I wondered how we’d lug them back to town in the heat. Just then a friendly woman drove up with her taxi to buy something at the store. She was more than happy to make a few unexpected bucks driving us back to the dinghy dock.