The park office is a very rustic place that runs on generator power as it is waaaaay off the beaten track. There is a main reception office as well as some out buildings for staff residences, a workshop , storage and a few other buildings for staff only access. Larry has years of history visiting here on his boat and he asked if there were any jobs that needed doing based on his mechanical expertise. Apparently there was a laundry list of things to do, all electrical related.

The complex runs on generator power, of which they have 3 trailer mounted units, a main, a backup and a 3 which was not working. They also had a new hot water tank they needed to have installed. It was fairly easy as a straight swap out, with their maintenance guy Steve completing the plumbing portion. Steve knows a lot about the systems of the complex but he doesn't touch power. Better that he stays away due to the danger component when he knows that he doesn't know enough to work on it safely.

I guess we passed the test because 1 thing leads to another and we then were asked to get the power fixed to the workshop and a washroom, both of which had been dead for quite some time. We went slow and were very careful as there was no telling how this place was wired. The 3rd world electrical code was alive and well here meaning anything goes. We ended up finding burned through wiring in 2 locations being the ultimate cause of popping breakers. After a day and a half of replacing wire runs (surprisingly they had spare wire but none of the associated hardware required to do a proper job) we things up and running! Not my finest work but compared to what was there...... anyway, it works and is safer than it was.

The park staff were very pleased and gave us a couple of free nights on mooring balls as thanks. It was great to help out as help and expertise is very hard to come by in this neighbourhood.

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Over the course of 3 days while we waited out the wind we had several boats coming and going. The tide going through the mooring field is pretty strong at times and reverses twice daily, so that means boats on moorings reverse the direction they are pointing due to current and surprisingly the wind makes them do funny things as well. We watched 2 boats come into the field at different times go aground because they tried to pass on the wrong side of the moored boats. Not sure why they did this as the charts have good depth contours on them and visually you can see where it is shallow. One boat, Northern Star, (remember that boat name) came in pretty fast and ground to a haunt, very close to Amaruq. Luckily he managed to get turned and powered off the bottom eventually mooring on the ball beside us. ( we let out a big sigh of relief upon seeing that)

Th next day we heard on the radio that a sailboat had struck another boat on its mooring and was stuck. We dinghied over to find the sailboat pinned against the bow of a trawler by the current with the mooring ball pendant ( the floating line attached to the mooring ball that you tied your bait to) stuck in the sailboat's rudder. Larry and I first secured the sailboat to the pendant and then got the reluctant trawler skipper to move to a different mooring ball. The current was rippin' through at about 3 knots so there is no way you're going to fight that with a 25000 lb boat.

The park warden came with his twin 200hp patrol boat and we got him to pull the boat's stern up current which eased the tension on the stuck line so we could pull it free. Once we got that done the sailboat was free and the skipper as drifting downstream quickly in the current. He was a bit dazed by this all and I had to give him instructions to get his boat turned around before he got blown ashore. I've seen this a few times on Coast Guard rescues where people in trouble seem to be in various stages of shock or confusion and that's what we had here. Luckily the guy started to listen to me and got the boat turned back into the current. I had my Brighton Rescue hat on so I think that may have helped in the credibility department. I went to the bow and got his mooring lines on the ball before we had further issues and the boat was secure. His wife was very grateful as she was the deck crew normally and had some physical challenges even under normal circumstances.


Nice sunset on the last evening at Wardewick. I was at the BBQ doing a nice pork tenderloin and saw 4 eagle rays circling around the boat a few times as well as a nurse shark. I guess they have acquired a taste for pork from Pig Beach (a few cays south of here)?