OtherGoose: Feb 16-23

Feb 16-23

Another whirlwind week of collecting prizes, laundry, meetings and...other stuff??

We were able finally to get together with Jillian and go for lunch at Tropic Breeze...it's the restaurant below the Tropic of Cancer...maybe. The Tropic of Cancer moves about 100 feet every year, depending on the amount of wobble of the earth on its axis, so the actual line drawn on the ground is a bit off right now.

We needed t go to the meat store but there is no pick-up truck this year. Yeah, no fun ride in an open truck...so, we rented a car and took people up in shifts. It was a Dihatsu...like a Nissan Cube but smaller! We had it rented for all day so when it finally got to us...it was almost an hour late...Rick took a bunch of boaters up there while Jeanne and I worked on regatta stuff. We were the last load so we got to finish up at the Market and the Pet Salon next door and Jeanne ran into a couple of other people who gave certificates so it was a valuable trip. All the boaters kicked in some money for the ride and we were able to pay for almost half the car!

When that was done C-Soul came with us for a tour of the island...north to south, and we went to Emerald Bay to see the entrance to the Marina...don't think we'll try that one. We went south to the very bottom of the island to have a look at the channel we will be travelling when we go to Long Island. We stopped again at the Tropic of Cancer line...it's a great spot but the line is now across the road, according to the earth science.

[The line moves .47 nautical seconds south every year. That's 6076.1 feet divided by 60 [seconds in a minute] = 101.2 feet so half that is 50.6 feet and in 2013 it was at N23.25.26 so now it is at N23.25.22. I'm sure Quentin can check that for me!

So after all that I forgot what I was telling you! Oh yeah, that makes it go through the baseball field!

We had couple of baseball practises and at the last one, a new young girl, who had never played in her life, hit the ball and threw the bat! It hit me in the shins and now I'm a little sore but that won't stop me playing!!Can't wait!!

Yesterday, Rick and I were dealers at the Poker Run at Shirley's Fish Fry. It was a wild day...the winds were up a bit and we took the big boat into the little harbour, and waited for people to come to pick up their cards. By the time it was over, there were squalls coming through and we got caught in Kidd Cove and couldn't get over to the final party. L

It was a wild night...winds at 35 knots on our meter but others across the harbour saw 39. Didn't sleep much but we didn't drag! Had 155 pounds of steel hanging off the bow to hold us down!!