May 14th... Marsh Harbour, Abacos

It was relatively windy during the night and I didn't sleep all that well. Up at 4:30, I dozed on the settee until it was time to listen to the weather at 6:30. It is going to be crappy this weekend and probably won't clear up totally until the middle of the week.

One of our propane tanks was almost empty so rather that waiting until it was dry, I ran it in to the Hardware store before noon to get it filled and back this afternoon. It's so easy here that it makes sense to just get it done. We now have enough propane to last us well into the summer.

Later Kathy and I went ashore to make a run to the ATM machine and then to the grocery. We didn't buy half a cart full and spent $127. The meat here is expensive and we picked up chicken, a corned beef, bacon, ham and a beef roast. I returned to the boat with our purchases while Kathy walked down to the restaurant where we had decided to meet. After getting things in the refrigerator I joined her and a few minutes later Steve and Kim showed up as well.

They wanted to walk a ways further to have a burger at a road side stand that they had visited last year. It turned out the be the best burger we've had all winter.

When we finished, the ladies walked back the government dock shopping a little on the way, while Steve and I retrieved the dinghies and met them a little later.

We returned to the Hardware to pick out our propane tanks and by the time we returned to the boat it 5pm.

After eating such a late lunch we decided to have popcorn with a movie and call it good.