January 26th, 2009 Clarence Town, Long Island

The weather is still windy and cloudy and the forecast doesn't show much change until about Thursday. We'll probably stay here until then. In the morning I transferred 10 gallons of diesel from our jerry cans to our main tank and then took off with Barry for the Marina which is about a mile across the harbor.

We took care of business and then spent a few minutes talking to Dave and Mary from "Mon Amie." who have spent the last month or so in the Jumentos and Acklins area. They were very helpful and invited us over sometime in the afternoon to go over things with our charts.

After putting the jerry cans away and lashing them down, we had some lunch and then I dinghied over to talk to Steve for awhile. Barry and Susan had gone into town during the morning and discovered a restaurant that had happy hour specials on food so we made plans to all go back at 4pm.

Barry and I spent some time on "Mon Amie" with Dave and Mary pointing out their favorite anchorages in the Jumentos. They are wonderful people and were very helpful.

Another boat came in and anchored behind us. "Rapscallion II" whom we've met briefly before. They are from Lapeer, Michigan and made the trip down the Erie Canal last summer.

There were five boats represented at happy hour and we had a great time. The food was good and not too expensive by Bahamamian standards. The trip back to "Sapphire" was a wet ride into 3 foot seas and 20 knots of wind, but the evening was worth it.