Christmas Anticipation
23 December 2011
White Sound anchorage, Green Turtle Cay

The anchorage is filling up day by day - over 40 boats now anchored in White Sound with more coming up the channel- mostly Canadian & US flagged - we are the only Brits, which is good for making friends as most of the cruisers come by in their dinghies to say Hi. The two resorts are on the VHF several times a day advertising their special deals for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
Boats all around us are getting decorated - some simply, with just a string of lights along the boom others are really clustered with snowmen, Christmas trees hoisted up the mast, reindeer - all lit at night and looking fantastic.
On Alexia, William puts up the garlands and lights in the cabin, on deck our baby Christmas tree starts to look jolly and we put new batteries into our 'electric' candles. A new addition to our cockpit 'ambiance' lighting is our homemade rope light - 4 x 12" strips of amber LEDs which we purchased from Autozone - a bit like Halfords in the UK but 50 times the variety of stocked items - this has been fed into the zipped top seam of the canopy and gives subltle lighting when dining on deck.
Did I forget to mention they all needed to be connected together and soldered? An impossible tool is the soldering iron....it makes great little balls of solder that roll everywhere but getting the solder to actually weld itself onto the wires was a different story.