Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Staniel Cay Day 3


Saturday, December 26, 2015
 Now the water won't seep out while the piggies are trying to drink it!
Love the duct tape!
 Anna and Henry from Miami

 Mama hen with her chick's!
 Police Station
 Blue store...that's the name of the grocery store!
 Flora
 Beautiful!
 Hand painted pictures along the wall
 scenic
 These
 are these, when they bloom!
 Pink Store advertising
 Clinic
 Huge sea shells!
 Laundry and Wholesale Liquor all in one!
 Now this flammable liquid truck could be a little sturdier....
Rainbow after the shower before the sunset

Well all the traveling is starting to catch up with us.  We were very tired today and wanted to make it a down day here on the boat.  But! Somehow or another I have misplaced my purse.  The only thing I can figure is I left it at the Yacht Club.  So…..

We made 4 gallons of water for the piggies, poured all the water we had left in our 5 gallon jugs into our water tank, packed up the trash and headed into town.  It’ only $2 to fill up a 5-gallon jug, which kind of evens itself out when it comes to us using engine hours, or genny gas to run the watermaker here on board.  However, yesterday when we got rid of trash and it only cost $3.50 a bag, today it was $7, same size bag, just a different person from the day before!

Another good example of how explicit you have to be when speaking to the Bahamians.  I walked into the bar and there was another woman working.  I told her I was in here yesterday and wanted to know if anyone had turned into a purse.  She said, “no not to me.”  I said maybe someone turned it into the other woman, she said “I came on at 3 yesterday and no one turned one into me.”  That was the end of the story for her.  I thought “OK what question am I not asking directly?” So I said “do you have a lost and found?”  She didn’t answer me but I could tell by the way she looked at me that they did. I asked if there was someone else there that could look for me.  She just kind of looked disturbed and said “wait a minute.”  Then we went to a closet not 5 feet away and there was my purse hanging in it!  So had I not pursued with my questioning, it would still be there.  Gotta make sure you are specific with your words here!

I tried to get back on the internet today, it was free on Christmas; but today it is not.  I wasn’t going to be on land long enough to do the blog so we are going to wait another day or two.  Hopefully when I purchase it I will have enough data time to do everything I want.  I’m suspecting not.

We ran into Henry and Anna again at the bar.  They’re friends that were supposed to come in by boat had to cancel.  It was a brand new 65’ sport fish.  They filled it with water in the states before crossing and overfilled the tank.  The water ended up going in between the ceilings and shorted out all of the electricity.  Bummer!  So Henry and Anna paid $500 to spend the night!  Yikes!  They were debating to spend another day or not or just get another plane back to Miami.  That’s where they live.

We decided to walk the town since we were there.  We found a grocery store, laundromat that sells wholesale liquor, and took a lot of good photos.  By the time we got back to the boat it was starting to drizzle and the sun was going down, so we never made it over to piggy’s.  Tomorrow we will!

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