Saturday, January 4, 2020

Georgetown, Exuma, Bahamas
23.31.160N
75.45.475W

Well, . . . what can I say about today?  Dale listened to the weather and then jumped into the dink and went to town to fill up our water can and much to my surprise our 2 solar showers.  He came back, syphoned the can into the tank and immediately made a return trip.  Apparently, the weather is not in our favor for several weeks and he’s upset because its something outside of his control.  Imagine!  Not being able to control the weather. 

In any event, on his second trip back, someone put out a request for a doctor or nurse throughout the harbor as they had injured themselves while snorkeling.  Of course, he answered and 30 minutes later a young man named Robbie came over with a swollen hand saying that he had smacked it on a rock; not coral, a rock.  Dale wrote down the name of an antibiotic with the advice that if it should even hint at becoming red to hightail it into the nearest ER, pharmacy, whatever and get the medication. 

Then he set about extending the hoses on the solar showers so that we can set them up on the outside of the boat but extend one hose to the kitchen sink and the other to the shower we use.  He then tested out the arrangement and proclaimed it to be invigorating.  Sounded cold to me but I’ll wait until later to find out after a full day in the sun.

View from St. Francis

For lunch today, we checked out a place called St. Francis.  Pretty much the same fare as everywhere else but they did have a dinghy dock that we could pull up to which is infinitely better can trying to pull the dink up on the sand and tying it to a tree with less than all of your strength available.  

I was welcomed by a sweet little boy about 3 years old, who just came up to me, grabbed my hand and started pulling me along chattering all the way.  Then he spotted the fickle finger of fate and had many, many questions as to why was it in a bandage, what happened, did it hurt, until his mother/auntie/caregiver pulled him away.  I thought he was really cute.  I don’t think he mistook me for someone else, he’s just going to be one of those naturally sociable people that talks to everyone.  Had one of those myself.  We’d try to explain that you shouldn’t talk with strangers, so he’d start with asking someone their name before he continued on.  I guess in his little mind, if you know their name, they’re no longer strangers. 

Practicing for Georgetown Regatta

The local regatta has started practicing in their little gaff rigged boats for the race in 5 weeks and one made it all the way across the harbor into our hang out and right behind the Palace.  It moved pretty quickly, so I think they’ve got a chance at winning.  We also watched someone not so adept at kite surfing in front of Chat N Chill.  He had to be exhausted by the time he was hauled into a chase boat but he never ran into anyone or tangled the kite in various boats’ rigging which we were wondering about.  The Junkanoo is on tonight over in town but neither of us cared to go this week.  AND, unless the many female squeals we heard last night well after dark emanating from Loon were from people going down the slide, we still haven’t seen it being used.  Although, we have seen several dinghies transiting very close to it for a better inspection. 

Guess that’s it for today.