It was an easy motor (no wind) to Boat Harbour in Marsh Harbour yesterday from Great Guana. The Sea of Abaco was dead calm and you could see everything 15 ft. down--my favorite was seeing huge starfish sitting on the bottom. We arrived in Boat Harbour and are on dock #7, the furthest dock from the facilities (and the internet) but it gets the most breeze and the people on dock 7 are the party crowd.
There's much to do here with the Royal Marsh Harbor Yacht Club. Cocktails are held every night (rain or shine) at 5 pm. Tomorrow is chili cookoff night. It's $10 per person but that includes 28 chili entrees plus all the liquor you can drink! 9 am every day is water aerobics and 10 am is yoga.
Today we took the dink over to Hopetown. It was one of the most beautiful places that I have ever seen and a dream fulfilled for me as I have always wanted to go. We climbed to the top of the Hopetown Lighthouse and had lunch at the Harbor with our boat neighbors. Unfortunately it started to rain and we had left all the hatches open on the boat and all the laundry on the rails. We radioed back to "dock 7" and one of our boat neighbors answered and was nice enough to close the hatches and take in our laundry. This is a fellow that took a bad fall a couple of days ago and ripped two of his nails clean off his toes. The thought gives me the heebie jeebies. He went to the clinic here where they loaded him up with painkillers, antibiotics, cleaned the wound and drove him back to the boat in the ambulance for a whopping fee of $42! Unbelievable, we thought.
We have yet to see the town of Marsh Harbour but tomorrow is provisioning day. We heard that we can get a case of wine with our Royal Marsh Harbour membership card for $66 and they will even deliver it to the boat! Our kind of place.
My cousin and her boyfriend come on Friday afternoon so we're hoping that our current weather (rain) moves out of here and some warmer and drier weather will prevail. Our boat neighbors on a Defever 49 showed us today where to dive for Lobster so we're hoping that we can fill the empty fridge with some "bugs" (what the Bahamians call Lobster).
We hope you are all staying warm up there!!!!
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