May 2,
Not sure how successful today’s entry will be…second day of
meds and one of them is knocking me out!! I have practically no ability to move
and very little brain power…& I’m supposed to take it ‘til it’s gone! I think it’s cumulative so I should be a
zombie by the end of the bottle!
Rick went to town for the rest of our groceries…his cereal
and eggs and bread… oh yeah and oranges too. I was too stoned to help him so I
slept. Liz figures it should be easy for
me to eat gluten free down here, and it is. I just can’t eat anything processed
so I get to eat very simply: fish or chicken, vegetables, rice and pasta [the
Exuma Market rough in GF pasta when Rick asked about it] so no chocolate bars,
no restaurant food… they bread & fry everything!
The nurse told me not to eat Sapodilla fruit, plantain or
mangoes…geez, that’s what we came for! They all have too much sugar. She said
tamarind is good…it’s tart. So I can cook it and make jam or salsa dressing out
of it if I don’t add sugar.
We moved back over to Volleyball Beach today, because
tomorrow is volleyball day and Rick is figuring he might try it too. If it’s going to be stormy, we don’t want to
ride the dinghy across in high winds and waves.
There was a report of a Tropical Depression forming over
Great Exuma [where we are] and possibly creating hurricane like symptoms, but
the latest is that it has moved ahead of us and will form over Staniel Cay…a
day away. It has also been downgraded to a Depression. So since we need to be
up in Allen Cay for May 15, and it’s only 2 days away, we will take our time
and gunk-hole up…if we can tear ourselves away from here!
Today, we were running the engine to charge up the batteries
and Rick dove on the anchor to make sure we are set for the winds tonight. He
noticed that our engine was not spitting out water and when he checked he found
that our water cooling pipe was full of crap. So we replaced it. It has coral
growing in it….hmmm maybe we need a strainer on the end of it!
So I had a long conversation with Liz this morning about
stuff and I just happened to mention that we down here also have wind chill, as
in the weather report saying that it was supposed to be 85 yesterday but with
the wind chill it was only 79. And today it’s cold enough that we could have put
on a t-shirt.
May 3, 2015
It’s 8 am and it’s very stormy here this morning…wind gusts
up to 34 mph…that’s about 55 km. We are
tucked against the shore and in about 6 feet of water. Apparently nobody wants
to play volleyball today…wimps… so we are going to cross over to the ocean side
and watch the storms coming over us. We should have a week of stormy weather
before everything settles down. In the meantime we can start preparing to
heading north, like…getting rid of 100lbs of books and magazines we already
read or won’t read; cleaning up the ‘guest room’ so we can move around in it;
stuff like that.
See, it’s not always fun and sun in paradise!
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| Swimming with dolphins in the dark |
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| Don't let the smile fool you... he was courting the female and was checking to see if Rick was a rival...bigger fins! |
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