March 18 - 21

It has been windy this week and even though it has calmed the last two days there are still good sized swells in the sound. There has also been some question about the weather this coming weekend so we have remained here in George Town for a few more days. The weather problem (was a low pressure system going to form over our heads or not) has resolved itself so we will be off tomorrow at about daylight.

There were some huge waves on the oceans side ... but try as we may, it is impossible to capture their magnitude on film.

Our days have been spent reading during the morning and sitting on the beach in the shade during the afternoons. I play Bridge from one to about four every day.

I did make a very wet trip to town on Wednesday to have our empty propane tank filled. The truck comes to an empty parking lot on Wednesdays and Saturday's at 11am. However, here in the islands that sometimes means 3pm or not at all. I also picked up some water, diesel, and a few groceries before heading back.

We spoke to "Madcap" last night and again this morning after the weather. They are heading for Long Island today and will probably be a couple of days behind us as we will be in Cat Island tomorrow, which is the next island to the north.

The Bahamians in general are a very religious people and everything here is closed from Friday to Monday for Easter. There is a sunrise service on the ocean that would be neat...(Sunrises are very cool here) but we'll be gone. Our goal on Sunday is the hike to the Hermitage which we'll explain with some photos later.

We'll have more to write about next week...

Bye for now
Msteere

Sam... you will be saddened to hear that Johnny, the conch salad boy, was deported back to Hati this week. It seems that he dumped has girlfriend for another and the jilted one reported him to the authorities.
There is a new guy in the shack, but it's not the same.