There are 75 permanent residents (more or less) on Staniel Cay. It’s a mix of native Bahamians and more or less permanent immigrants. The island has a little library in the oldest building in the settlement. Today they were having a fundraiser so we came over for it.

I bought some books at the library (cheap) and a few cookies at the bake sale (not so cheap). We met another couple and went to the fundraiser lunch with them. More conch stew and Johnnycake. Very good, though maybe not quite as good as the church cook out at Great Harbour. It was held at a shelter across the road from the public beach. The fundraiser, like everything else here, was a nice mix of native and imported Bahamians with a generous dose of cruisers and other vacationers.

Since it was a mild day we brought along the computer so I’m going to try to post the blog entries I’ve accumulated. Tomorrow is supposed to be windy again, so we may not be back across until Tuesday.

We’re still trying to figure out when we’re going to leave. There’s a famous snorkel here into Thunderball Cave, which was the setting for the 007 movie. That snorkel is best at slack tide around midday, so we are kind of waiting for those things to coincide on a reasonably calm day, so we can dinghy over for it. Seems a shame not to try it since we’re here. That probably won’t happen until the middle of next week. So we’ll see…