We spent our last day there doing a lot of prepping for the next leg of our journey. We moved the boat on Wednesday afternoon (we have gotten the anchoring down to a fine art now) closer to the entrance to Georgetown. This way we wouldn't have a long dinghy ride carrying supplies back and forth to the boat. Being in a dinghy in strong current is a very wet ride! So on Thursday, we loaded up our 2 - 5 gal. water jugs and 3 small ones in the dinghy leaving just enough room for us, and off we went under the bridge to the dinghy dock. In this direction, we don't get as wet. We had to wait behind other people in their dinghies to get water. It's a nice place to chat with others! Brought the jugs back to the boat, emptied them in the boat's tanks and repeated this process. This time though, while Ed was filling up the water jugs, I went to the market and re-provisioned with some fresh veggies and eggs. This time we had all the jugs and a large dry bag backpack full of food to dinghy back! With this chore done, it was time to put all the food away, eat lunch, and this time load up all the jerry jugs for gas on the dinghy. This time we had 3 large containers. This only required 1 trip, fortunately! The dinghy was so overloaded that Ed was stuck in the dinghy and couldn't get out with all the gas jugs on him! I "rescued" him quickly! This took the morning and part of the afternoon. I've been wanting to strengthen my arm muscles - and all of this gave me a good workout!
Our time to play came next. We went back to town and met a couple of friends we ran into in Georgetown whom we first met at Warderick Wells.
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| Phoebe (Her husband took the pic) |
Now that the Cruising Regatta is over, the next activity planned is the Music Fest. Saturday night is the big night with their big bands coming, and lots of good food! We did stop in to get an order of Conch Fritters. Very tasty - not too many conch in it though. We took a bit of a hike around the town and then back to our respective boats. It was nice getting together with Ron and Phoebe. We had them over for dinner the night before and really enjoyed their company.
We were originally going to go North by exploring Cat Cay, the Eleuthera and the Abaco Islands - the Out Islands of the Bahamas. For the sake of time we decided to turn back around and see some of the islands that we missed due to the weather. Down the line we will go North to the Abacos and then back to the States. If all goes as "planned" we will go back to Ft. Pierce, Fl and then up the ICW to home. Our goal is to be home by June 1.
We are in Lee Stocking Island now. There used to be a research center here - Perry Institute for Marine Science. At some point the Government stopped the funding of the research, so everyone in the center left leaving everything behind! We will take the dinghy in tomorrow morning and explore the remains of the buildings on the island.
The area is absolutely beautiful (guess you figured out that I think everywhere here is beautiful!). I am looking forward to seeing where a good place to snorkel is, and I just may bring my spear and try my hand at fishing with it. People have told me that there is conch to be had around here. The only place I have seen enough conch was in Warderick Wells where there was a no hunting rule - being it's in the Exuma Land and Sea Park!
These are just a couple of photos for now of the surrounding area at Lee Stocking. Tomorrow.............wonder what we'll see?...........stay tune!
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