May 3rd...Green Turtle Cay

It was rainy in the morning so we spent quite a while reading, making breakfast and cooking up some black beans. Green Turtle is the last town we will be seeing before we hit the States, and tomorrow is Sunday and the stores here will be closed so any provisioning will have to be done today.

We could have used eggs and butter but probably have enough of both to make it back. I did squeeze one of our jerry cans of fuel into the tank and then went into shore to get the can refilled @$5.74 per gallon.

After wasting a little more time waiting for the weather to clear (and it did), we headed for the Festival. We wandered both the festival grounds and the town for awhile talking to friends and checking out the food vendors again. In the evening there was Junkanoo (junk-a-new) which is a Bahamian parade similar to Mardigras. Normally, Junkanoos occur on boxing day 12/26 (all night) and New Years Day. Junkanoo stems from a slave by the name of John Canoe who demanded that he be allowed to visit his family on other islands during the Christmas season. (they think)

There was music well into the evening including a "pop" concert by the Bahamas Royal Police Pop Band.