Long Island

We left George Town on Thursday. Tuesday was the dinner at Chat n Chill and the Valentines dance. We had fun. We took Moose to dinner on the beach and then back to the boat for the dance. He was tired and we knew it would be too confusing for him on the small deck with all the people. The night before the dance we had dinner on 'Not so Interim' with Bert and Maria Elena and two other couples-Roger and Linda on Sundancer and Patrick and Lisa on Giya II. Maria Elena who owned a restaurant in Venezuela is an awesome cook and we had conch fritters and fresh seared tuna which they had caught on the way to George Town. Turns out we knew Roger and Linda back in Galesville, MD when we had our 38' Ericson, Babe, named after the pig, of course, because it was as strange for a pig to be a sheepdog as for us to be sailing a boat. They caught us up on old friends with whom we sailed around the DelMarVa back in the late 90's. Small world. They met Maria Elena when they sailed to S. America some years back.

We arrived in Long Island yesterday afternoon. It is southeast of George Town. Thompson Bay is where we are anchored and it is large and not crowed. We arrived about 5:30 and took Moose into the beach and then headed back to Spunky for dinner.

This morning we took the dinghy the 2 miles into Island Breeze a 'resort 'that tries to cater to cruisers by allowing us to use the dinghy dock. The grocery store in Salt Pond which is the settlement where we are is pretty well stocked by Bahamas standards which is not saying much by US standards.

I wish I could figure out how to get my photos from the camera to the update as I know it would mean a lot more for you to see what we are experiencing. I am going to try to have John figure that out. He has been diving on the prop to clean it of barnacles and washing off the boat line where growth is above the bottom paint line due to the fact that we have loaded Spunky down with provisions. This afternoon I am hoping to do a small load of laundry and then it is relax time.