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| Bev & Rick flying in! |
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| Bev |
The weather is predicted to be nice with variable winds up
until
Wednesday of this week. Circe II
and Whisper are extending their trip for one more day. We would be right with them but Rick and Bev
are flying in this afternoon at 1:35….so we have to get back to our dock. We left our anchorage at Tilloo Cay at 8:35
am . It will probably take us 3 hours by
the time we wind around Lubber’s Sand
Spit and up to Matt Lowes Cay. Since the
winds are light, there’s not a ripple on the surface which makes it easy to see
everything on the bottom. The water is
beautiful today. So nice that Chuck
locked the wheel and we both are looking over the side into the water. Before we know it, we are off Witches Point and
it’s near low tide…and in shallow water where we should not be! Surprise!!!!
The shallow depth alarm goes off and scares the death out of us. It
turned out to be a good thing because we don’t want to go hard aground and have
to sit there until the tide comes in. We
motored over to deeper water without any problems. As we rounded Matt Lowes Cay heading toward
Marsh Harbour, we heard Billy on Circe II hail David on Whisper and warned him
that he was heading toward some shallow water.
LOL. I wonder if it was in the
same location where we drifted astray.
I tell you what, the beauty of our surroundings easily distracts all of
us from paying attention to our charts!!
We got back to the marina at 12:20. I hailed Desmond on channel 16 to let him know
we were coming into the fuel dock. Once
we filled our tank and a 5 gallon can, we backed away and motored to our dock
where Jason was waiting to hand us our
lines. Since the winds were light, we
had a very easy dockage. Yikes, did we
leave enough time to prepare for our company?
We had to do laundry, make the
v-berth, and clean the boat. I was up
folding our clothes by the pool when I saw Rick and Bev’s plane, BahamasAir,
fly overhead. It was 1:30 and they were
to land at 1:35.
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| Chuck mixing! |
Once they landed and
cleared customs, they didn’t get to the Jib Room until
2:15….they stopped at
Bristols for booze!! They had so much
luggage because of spending last week on the ‘Blues Cruise’ that we didn’t know where we were going to
put it all….but Bev made it fit!! As
soon as they were settle in, we celebrated their arrival to Marsh Harbour with
Chuck’s Goombay Smashes and then off across the harbor to Curly Tails for
appetizers and pizza. Yum! The sun was setting on our way over with
spectacular red tints on the horizon. On
our ride back home, it was pitch black
and Bev was in awe that they were back in the Abacos again!
There was a lot of activity on the docks when we tied our
dinghy to the stern of our boat. Peter
and Caroline from mv/Summer Tilt lost their cat! Sammy the cat escaped sometime today. Chuck and I joined the search with our
flashlight to no avail. Everyone is
hoping that he’ll show up tomorrow morning……
We still enjoy reading your blog and all the great times you guys are having. Please tell Peter and Caroline on "Summer Tilt" Hi! from us and we hope for the quick and safe return of Sammy their cat.
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