Last days, on our way.

Bumming around in Bimini

We have spent the last 4 days at Bimini awaiting the good weather window due on Saturday. But we have managed to fill the days; - our marina had a 'Pot Luck' dinner in which all 8 boats (6 yachts & 2 cruisers) participated, we cycled to grocery & hardware stores, IT shops to hunt up a hot spot (to no avail) & down to the entrance to see the very narrow 'dinghy channel', the police arrived to take statements re the stolen gun & riggers knife & the following day returned both items. The Police were very friendly and very efficient, worried about any bad press due to the thefts. Later in the day 2 representatives of the Tourist board came to the Marina to apologise for what happened. Me thinks amateur burglar is in a mess of trouble.

We shared a sumptuous meal including perfectly cooked mahimahi (by Brent) with our friends Brent, Deb, Lewis & Kim one evening, coffee & fresh sweet guava buns one morning on our boat and 'Trillium rum punch cocktails' (created by Kim) before eating at 'Sharkies'.We have regularly bought bread at the 'Taste of Heaven' bakery that bakes fresh bread & buns every day – delicious. We also visited 'The Dolphin House' - a project begun in 1993 by Ashley Saunders - brother of the boat builder. It is his monument to dolphins after swimming with them many times. He is very environmentally conscious and uses rubbish washed up on the beach & tiles etc. from building sites & any useful pieces from the tip in his construction. The house is all hand made of concrete – strong enough to have survived 5 hurricanes & a tornado. It has conch shells, glass bottles, broken ceramics, porcelain, mirrors, driftwood & anything that he can mix in artistically. We had a busy morning helping 4-5 yachts leave or arrive in the very strong winds – this is a whole mornings entertainment in itself.

We plan to head to Chub Cay tomorrow with “Hayley's Comet” . This is about an 11 hour trip we will anchor out before we begin our southern exploration of the Exumas -a southern chain of islands in the Bahamas.

Due to not having a hot spot ( for E/mail )for our computer we will have to rely on what we can find at a Marina, so we could be out of touch for a week at a time.