After falling asleep early from all the booze, we woke up in the middle of the night and had a fitful night of sleep afterward. We formally woke up with the sun and made our plans for the day.

Dinghied to the same dock as yesterday with the same route, and discovered we took the routes yesterday at high tide. And it was low tide. Kicked up a lot of sand and mud and took another route.

Got on land and it immediately started pouring, hard. So we went to the bakery and got some large dumpling like things filled with meat. Spicy, delicious meat!

Once the rain stopped we decided to take the dinghy to black sound and check out the marinas to see if any pumped put. After ascertaining that one fancy lookin marina did pump out for an insane price ($35 - at Melbourne harbor marina its $10).

We went to another marina and determined that they had better prices for fuel and water, but did not pump out (and recommended we just dump - ew). They also had better prices for slippage, but some very sketchy docks and wiring. Also the fancy marina had showers and Wi-Fi. We like those things.

Why are we going to a marina for the night? Really, just because we feel like it. Anchoring out all the time is kinda like camping and there's that paranoia the anchor is going to drag in the night. We bought screws and nuts in town today and will assemble the anchor to alleviate those fears.

Also... Showers and Wi-Fi. And trash disposal. And laundry (probably won't do laundry but still).

Shawn has also wanted for a long time to show me what the air conditioning output is supposed to feel like, which requires a marina in clean water so we can dive down and feel it.

Anyway we weren't ready for that marina quite yet, since it's further away from New Plymouth than our boat, so we went back to town for some shopping. Just fun frilly tourist shopping, buying shirts and keychains and postcards to use as thank you letters. Once we stocked up, we went back to the boat to prepare for the booze run.

We came back with the few nuts and screws left to get more at the aforementioned trip to the hardware store, then bought a gallon of Goombay Smash to share with friends for my birthday upon our return, and followed this with a boatload of booze. One case of Kalik, another of Sands, and several bottles of different varieties of rum. The liquor store delivered right to the dinghy dock, which was convenient!

Right after we checked out with card the power went out, which was just in time since we didn't have enough cash for the purchase. Didn't think much of this power outage until after we went back home and took the boat to the fuel dock where we discovered the power was still off - which meant we couldn't fuel. Shared mead with the dock operator and chatted until power came back. I should note at this point the fuel dock scared even brave Shawn - it rose and fell in places and looked as if Shawn jumped enough times it'd all come down. Rusty nail heads (not points) were free where the rest of the wood had worn away. I stepped on one - no cuts since it's just the head, but putting pressure on such a small area isn't comfortable.

We fueled and watered and hailed Leeward Yacht Club for slippage. Chatted on another channel and went back to 16. At this time, Mer Soleil happened to be on the radio and hailed us. We found out they didn't like how wavey anchoring just off new Plymouth was and decided to anchor in White Sound.

Went into Leeward and after checking in took a well-deserved shower, then went into town for food. Harvey's was good but not exceptional in my opinion. Took a lovely stroll on the beach and enjoyed the soft sand that has been such a pain to anchor in. It's barely sand, perhaps "powder" is a better word.

Dinghied back and set up our laptops to play HotS, then watched a beautiful sunset. Faced some issues with Battle.net loading and after some trial and error found out I needed to spoof location with a VPN to connect. Does Blizzard just not support the Bahamas? I don't know.

The Wi-Fi isn't terribly quick here. Waiting for downloads is excruciating, but at a certain point we decided we wanted to do it JUST TO DO IT. Just to say "we played video games in the Bahamas on our boat".

By the time my Blizzard client and game finally downloaded our friends had to go to bed for work the next day. I wonder if it's just because this was free internet shared with others, or Bahamian internet is generally slow.

We will try actually playing games tomorrow morning, since we always wake up early around here and all businesses run on Island Time (pump out doesn't start until 8...so maybe 8:30-45). Also try uploading photos to Facebook, since for some reason uploading on my phone has been failing. There's a lovely video of the dolphins off the bow I've been wanting to upload but just can't!