Today has been quite the day!

We awoke late (7:30) after having the best night of sleep we'd had in quite some time. We turned the AC down to 70 and chilled out - literally.
We poked our heads around the marina and used bathrooms onshore to find nobody was around yet to settle our tab and pump us out. So we went back onboard to try to play HotS.

We should've just played the stupid match last night, because this morning Shawn's VPN wouldn't connect - which means Battle.net wouldn't work since they hate the Bahamas for some reason.

Tried to no avail to get that working but eventually gave up, mostly because the internet kept going out. Honestly the worst marina Wi-Fi I have dealt with, and that's saying something considering this was a fancy place and Waterline, which is a floating trailer park (I say enderalingly), had better.

Shawn assisted the pump out operator while I was below re-transforming our house into boat mode. And good thing too - we thought we dumped offshore during the crossing, but apparently we didn't because when they uncapped the holding tank a poopnado erupted on deck. The deck was cleaned up well since I didn't see any signs of it after...

We took a shower, mostly for Shawn but also just because we could, and when I asked him if he felt clean after he said "Physically, yes. Mentally I'll never feel totally clean again." then shuddered.

We checked out and paid the large bill (and found out they metered electricity the hard way), then took the dinghy to New Plymouth for breakfast and groceries before totally leaving Green Turtle Cay.

We had breakfast at the liquor store, and could've even bought shirts that said that. You may remember my subpar review of their burgers yesterday, we came back mostly because it was the only restaurant open and we wanted to eat before buying food. Their breakfast was much better than their burgers.

Went to Sids and bought bread, eggs, and cheese. Simple shopping. Dry goods are too expensive here to justify purchase. A large bag of doritos is $7, for instance. So just the necessities.

Dinghied back and then untied lines and shoved off. Shawn was nervous since he had to back the boat out through the whole dock and it was low tide, but we ended up getting out quite smoothly.

We motored along to Treasure Cay for the day. I read in our Bahamian cruising guide that there are ferries from green turtle to treasure that we could've paid for. The guide is from 1999 (and most of it is still accurate!!), so a round trip is probably more than $11 now. I think we still made the right decision in taking our boat over since our ~*Primary Quest*~ in Treasure Cay is to acquire a case of Strong Back Stout, and that'd be kinda annoying to put on the ferry!

At one point during the journey Shawn noticed something harrowing -
The dinghy engine was in the water.

Not in the drink and gone forever, just the dinghy had turned over and the engine was filled with salt water. Salt water is anathema to all complicated systems it seems, and quickly corroded the inside of engines.

In our panic, the first thing we did is take the engine out of the water. We learned later that is actually when corrosion begins and that was the worst thing we could've done, but oh well. The engine was put in the dinghy itself and Googling was done to figure out what we could do. It appeared we needed to disassemble the engine, which is very hard in rocky waves, so we waited for Treasure Cay.

The lesson to be learned is: don't be lazy, take off your dinghy engine and secure it onboard when you aren't using it. We have learned this the hard way.

On the bright side, yesterday while motoring the engine made a weird squeaking sound when in higher throttle. After turning off the engine, Shawn left the throttle in full overnight to stretch the cable and that appears to have fixed the squeaking! So we have that going for us, which is nice.

We got into treasure cay and I read a sign that read that if we were anchoring or mooring that we needed to check in at the marina. Without our dink engine we decided it'd be best to just go up to a slip and tie off, check in, then quickly leave.

We did just that, got the wifi access codes for 2 devices (figured without electricity we wouldn't be using the laptops), and discovered we were taking up the slip the Mash Harbor ferry uses. Ooops.

Found a good anchoring spot only to be yelled at by an old lady that we were too close to her. So we took a less ideal spot to stop her complaining.

We managed to connect to the wifi even from the anchorage which was nice. It's spotty, but actually less spotty than Leeward. We had dinner onboard and decided to try rowing to shore - which ended poorly, as the default oars are terrible. So we sat onboard sad until we watched a few YouTube guides on how to possibly fix the engine and then Shawn went about doing just that.

I'll note the entire time we were doing so, the engine cover was off and we were working on it (the universal sign of boater distress) and several boats passed us. Not a single one stopped to even ask if we needed help. In fact, no stranger has ever helped us - unless you count BoatUS, which I don't. We've helped 3 boats in distress (one while our electrical array was dead), and while I know that's not a direct give and take, I'd like some of that karma to come in for once.

We rinsed it with fresh water, pulled out the sparkplugs, and oiled it everywhere the guide said to. So much oil. After about a half hour of this we put the engine back on the dink and... Managed to start it up! Omg! Yay!
She doesn't plane quite the way she used to, but we got a nice hot shower on shore. The first shower I tried was angry at me and sputtered everywhere and wouldn't stop for a while, but other than that, WONDERFUL HOT SHOWERSSS!
They were in surprisingly terrible condition for such a fancy place that charges 2.50/ft/night (for reference yesterday was 1.50 and the sketchy dock was 0.88). Hmm.

We got back and Shawn assembled the anchor. The bar in the middle can come out at any time, so we need to figure out how to secure that before we can use it.

Tomorrow we go to Treasure Cay proper and do some shopping (the best kind of shopping - BOOZE SHOPPING!) . Later on we hope to anchor at No Name Cay, where there are wild pigs you can feed!