This morning dawned as usual, at about 6:15 am. That's when I usually get up, as the weather forecasts start about 6:30. I am now up to four, as I have started listening to Chris Parker who gives a detailed forecast for different areas of the Bahamas, and follows it up by discussing in great detail forecasts for individual boats, if you have paid his fee of $175/yr. It's great because there is usually a boat calling in that has plans similar to ours. We may sign up for our next plans.
But I forgot... Yesterday, as we were approaching in Williams Bay, (which is not really a bay at all, but a small cove that can accommodate three boats if they all anchor carefully) a trimaran came in and began to anchor. We arrived about the same time, but I stopped to let them anchor first. Well, actually, we ran aground so the boat did the stopping, not me. But we were just lightly aground, so we just sat and waited while the trimaran anchored. When they rounded up to drop their anchor, they seemed to aim directly at us. So I scuttled out of the way. And a woman came up on deck and pitched the anchor over. It wasn't a very big anchor, but it was flat calm, and forecast to remain so all night. But the way they anchored meant that it was very difficult for one other boat, let alone two, to anchor as well. But we did get in and got anchored, although there was less than one foot under the keel at low tide.
I am still not sure if they were just inept, or trying to chase us out of the anchorage. But we went down to get settled, and by the time we came back on deck to go ashore for a hike, all four of the trimaran's crew had swum ashore The adults had disappeared around a point leaving two children playing on the beach. We headed in to the small beach that had the trail. This was the beach the adults had waded over to, and was hidden around a small point. As we rounded the point to go ashore, we were met with two middle aged women, both naked and wading out hand in hand!
And it was not a pretty sight!!! At first, we thought we should scram, but then, I thought "They don't own the anchorage, even though they acted like it, and they don't own the beach, so we ignored them, and they us and we landed and went hiking. By the time we returned, they had swum back to their boat, anchored about 100' from us, and were on deck, still stark naked, arranging towels for drying. I lost count of the number of times we were mooned! Oh well, it was dusk, we had had a beautiful day, were having grouper for dinner with a nice cold wine, I had a Gin & Tonic, so life was really pretty good.
This morning, when we left the anchorage at about 9:00 am, no one had been sighted on the trimaran. Today was the same as yesterday, sunny, warm, light winds. And we went about 3 miles, snorkling at a few sites along the way, beach combing, and reading. We have had to limit ourselves to one crossword puzzle per day, as the book is getting finished fast. And tomorrow we will head to Georgetown to wait for the next two fronts to go through.
Tonight we will listen to the news on the BBC as we usually do at 5:00 pm. Radio Canada comes on at 7:00 pm, but the signal is usually awful! Why can countries like Poland, China, Australia and Romania boom in, and Canada have such a pathetic signal?