March 31- April 2

March 31 cont’d

On Tuesday, after we came back from town, we were getting ready to move the boat back over to Sand Dollar Beach for the night, figuring it would be more protected from the strong east wind. AS he was pulling in the dinghy, Rick saw three dolphins swimming by. They swam around the boat once and then again, so he jumped into the water with the GO-PRO and they swam right up to him. It was very cool!!

We parked at Sand Dollar and went to the beach to climb over the hill and check out the ocean. It was still pretty rough! The hill is about 200 feet high but almost straight up. There is a well worn path up and over. The other side is a cliff. There are other paths down to the rocky beach but we didn’t go down.  ON top of this 200 foot high hill there are shells. We gathered some so Rick could start constructing his shell butterfly/angels. He found a Queen Helmet shell [looks like a conch] that is in perfect condition...no cracks or scratches on it [dead, of course].  In the Shell Collecting book that he bought the thing is valued at $30-$50!! Who knew!!

April 1 Happy Birthday Joe!!!

It’s kind of scary to think we’ve been here a month because the time goes so fast and I can’t remember what we’ve done from day to day.

I spent the morning organizing the information I already have on the T&C’s. What a chore! Not sure if it’s because my brain is rebelling at actually rebelling at working or if I just don’t want to do this particular job.

We went swimming for an hour just to get the fuzz out and we swam and snorkelled along the beach but there have been so many boats anchor here that the bottom is all torn up and only bits of grass grow.

After supper we went to the dance [nobody really dances much] at Volleyball Beach and met another Prout [1998] boat. They bought theirs in Turkey and they came over from the Mediterranean to Grenada. Now they are heading up to the continent to do the Great Loop.  Chris Gooch writes for a British sailing magazine and he is recording their trip.

April 2

Every morning at 8:00 am we listen to the Cruiser’s net for weather and other information. So we are sitting in the cockpit and watching the boats wing around and behind us is a big patch of sea grass. Every morning we watch a sea turtle or two come up and look around and wave a flipper, but as soon as Rick picks up the camera, it ducks down and stays down.  So tomorrow he is going to take the GO-Pro and see if he can catch it with the underwater camera to add to his list of underwater wildlife movies!

we have pretty much decided to not go to the TCI's. We can't seem to get a good weather window, so I will do this with phone calls and website searches. we will stay in the Bahamas somewhere for the remainder of the spring. Darn, eh?