Our New Neighborhood and Odds and Ends
10 March 2012 | Elizabeth Harbour, George Town
Jill
This will be a short entry. I woke this morning with a headache as bad as those I used to get. I haven’t had a headache of this intensity for a long time. I’m not sure the cause. It may have been a bad nights sleep two nights ago, followed by the unexpected work of a days sailing. In any case, I didn’t do much at all today except rest. Since the wind was down, and is supposed to be back up to 20 knots until Tuesday, and above 16 knots for the rest of the week, Bud made two trips to town for water. From where we are here it’s closer than the run from Thompson Bay to Long Island Petroleum, and here the water is free, courtesy of Exuma Markets, the local grocery that probably owes its existence to the hundreds of cruisers here at any one time during the winter season.
I was going to go and do the laundry, but I couldn’t stay upright long enough to do much of anything. So the laundry will wait until Monday, and if the waves in the harbor are too high for a ride in the dinghy we’ll just have to take a water taxi.
I stuck my head out of the cabin long enough to take a couple of shots of our new anchorage. The one posted with this entry shows the dinghies lined up along shore at Volleyball Beach. You can just make out the signature signpost with many homeports and distances designated. That’s been repaired and re-erected since Hurricane Irene knocked it down. I also took a photo of a very large cruiser dwarfed by a huge yacht that are anchored just south of us. We’re in quite the classy neighborhood, now. That I’ll put in the gallery.
I’m also adding a photo I took yesterday and forgot. It’s of Ocean Energy, the tanker that delivers gasoline and diesel all over the Bahamas. They’d made a delivery at Salt Pond, Long Island and left Thompson Bay just after we did. The picture is as they passed us. Ocean Energy subscribes to the same weather service that we do, and we often hear them asking for conditions on the morning SSB broadcast.
One other thing, I mentioned before that we would be taking Fuzzy to the vet here. I don’t think we’re going to. His problem doesn’t seem to be so much incontinence as a weakened bladder and now that we’ve gotten him to go up and pee on deck we seem to be managing his problem with several trips to the deck in addition to the two or three trips ashore each day. I don’t think a vet would tell us there was any problem other than old age. Poor old Fuzzy, he’s getting to be such a doddering old man of a dog these days.
The last thing I wanted to mention was the logistics of this blog. When I don’t have Internet and post the blog via the SSB radio, I can’t see what I’ve posted and I can’t see anyone’s comments. But once I get Internet, I always go back and review and I read and appreciate any comments that have been added. Thanks to all of you who read this, and all of you who’ve added your comments to my narrative.