We decided we wanted to go and experience a Bahamian Rake n Scrape. Traditionally a Rake n Scrape consists of a band of musicians using a saw as the primary instrument. You can find here what they bill as Rake n Scrape in a different restaurant or bar every night of the week but only the one, on Monday’s at Eddie’s Edgewater, is a traditional one. We aren’t sure we will still be here on Monday so we decided to go to the Peace & Plenty Rake n Scrape Barbecue last night. The Peace & Plenty is a nice hotel within walking distance of the dinghy dock. We have had breakfast in their dining room. The barbecue was at 6:30pm by the pool and the music was starting at 7:30pm so we decided to move Moonraker over to the Georgetown side of the harbor so we wouldn’t have to drive all the way across the large harbor late at night in our dinghy. While we are over here we will purchase fuel and re-provision. Both benefit by not having a long dinghy ride to drag all that weight.

We reconnected here in Georgetown with a couple we got friendly with in Nassau our second day in the Bahamas and they decided to come to the Rake n Scrape with us. We knew we were in for trouble because they like a party and dancing a lot more than we do and we knew they would be pushing us to dance. We were brave and went through with it anyhow. What we didn’t count on though was meeting Bahama Obama, who you can see me with in the picture above. He is somewhat of a local celebrity and the restaurant apparently hires him to make sure their guests have fun. He told us he is good at his job – and believe me he is. He zeroed right in on me. He said to himself “this woman does not know how to have fun and she probably can’t dance”. He dragged me right out on the dance floor and tried to make me a dancer. I don’t think he succeeded but it was a lot of fun. Both Bill and I danced, or tried to, a number of times. I will say that dancing is more fun than watching people dance.

Today we dinghyed back over to the beach side and attended a question and answer session on battery life and solar power. Our batteries are in bad shape. The way we use them is very bad for them and we are paying the price. We will have to recondition them again soon which means going to a marina. We have one picked out and will head there after we leave Georgetown.

In the meantime Bill has been working on a computer program to help him interpret the weather. Weather is so important when you are deciding where to go and when. One of the crucial things to watch is whether the weather will be stable for a number of days or constantly changing. Bill’s program takes the details from formatted emails he gets every day and puts the data into a spreadsheet that makes it very easy to view the trends. We can’t wait to start moving again and put his program to practical use!