Saturday at Great Harbour Key Marina
April 6, 2013
Early morning led the manatee family to our marina. Everyone gathered around to see the slow
moving creatures. Paula and Norman from
Bath NC aboard Madam, came over to
see our fishing equipment. Paula is an
expert at catching grouper--she can't weigh more than one hundred pounds or be
taller than 5 feet, but she can fish for the big boys! Several other boaters came by to photograph
our lesson with Paula. Norman gave me
some words of wisdom about fishing and again invited us to go to Hoffman's Cay
with them-we had to agree to meet them next year for some hands on fishing
instruction.
We gathered up the snorkels, fins, and masks for another
beach walk so that Steve could swim/walk across a bay area to discover the fish
at an offshore island. I chose to read
my book while he tried to walk the mile across the water. He turned around and settled for snorkeling
in an area closer to the beach where he found a shark. He yelled for me to look as he held up a 4-5
foot shark. I was trying to process how
he was holding a shark when it occurred to me that the shark was no longer
alive. He brought it to me on the beach
to enjoy its aroma.
Steve played in the water for about 30 minutes when he
decided to gather up our shoes and walk back down the beach. About the time we were about the cross over
to the road, he realized he had dropped one of my shoes and had to walk almost
all the way back to retrieve it. Luckily
the tide did not wash it away.
A sweet couple with a jeep and four children offered us a
ride back to the marina. They are from
California on sabbatical. He is a doctor
who is working online reading MRI's so that they can spend a year here.
In an effort to save water, we were taking advantage of the
marina showers. (Water at this marina is
seventy five cents a gallon) I took a
cold shower because evidently the faucet is backwards here--toweled
off--wrapped my hair up in a turban--got dressed and headed back to the
boat. Funny how I didn't mind walking
around the marina with my hair wrapped up in a towel. It felt like being at camp--cool breeze
blowing on clean skin.
Back to water conservation--our water tank holds 300 gallons
of water. We left on Sunday morning,
March 31 with a close to full tank. We
use water to wash dishes, shower, flush the toilet, and wash clothes. We have come accustomed to easy access
to inexpensive or free water in the
states, but here water is very expensive.
We are trying to wait until we arrive at Marsh Harbour, Abacos to buy
water where it is much less expensive.
Tonight, we were joined by Pat & Gale of S/V Cynthia Gale and Dwight & Karen
for appetizers. I opened up a bag of
frozen shrimp, mixed up some cocktail sauce, added carrot slices with ranch
dressing and some fresh grapes. Gale
brought my favorite--brie cheese. Karen
brought Hot Artichoke Dip. We enjoyed
our appetizers on the fly bridge with the cool breeze. We made guesses as to who owned the mega
yacht beside us named StoneFace. We saw the captain grilling steaks with his
date for the evening. A little while
into the evening a fast flying fishing boat came into the marina with its
speakers blaring. They had returned from
Flo's Conch Bar and Restaurant that Steve and I had suggested for an
outing.
Clearly they had imbibed of the special drinks at
Flo's. The woman on board proceeded to
step up to the bow of their boat once tied up and started to dance with her 2
inch wedge heels on the rocking boat.
Pat commented that all she needed was a pole-- Dwight ran down to put a dollar into her
swimsuit--yes, the men were definitely entertained. The captain of StoneFace quickly forgot
that his steaks were on the grill. Steve
grabbed his phone to video this event and sent it to all of his friends. After about 30 minutes, they wobbled
off the boat and into a golf cart and
headed off.
We wrapped up our evening pretty early as everyone is
planning on heading out on Sunday morning since the weather is predicted to be
better.
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