Our
life here revolves around weather, the boat and laundry among other things!
Black Point has a great laundry so here we are! Due to the strong winds the
water is very choppy making it a little uncomfortable in the anchorage. We had
another Canadian boat waving to us when we were coming in to anchor and once we
got settled he came over to meet us as he was from Nova Scotia as well. Turns
out he was retired Coast Guard from Halifax and had worked at the Rescue
Coordination Centre so we knew a lot of the same people – what a small world.
We headed to shore to have a walk and ended up meeting a Toronto couple that was
traveling with the NS couple at Scorpios bar and grill.
The next
morning Richard dropped me off at the laundry and he headed back to the boat to
work on our water pump, which has been giving us some trouble. Laundry can
sometimes be an all day event depending on the number of boats in the harbour
and as I had counted 34 of them that morning I packed my ipad and book for the
trip. I had 3 loads to wash and dry which came to $18.75, which is a very good
price for here. Ida who owns the place is a very industrious woman, along with
the laundry she has showers, golf cart rentals, cottage rentals, apartments, a
little store, cuts hair and sells her mothers homemade bread… she’s a very busy
woman! I watched her cut another woman’s hair while I was there and she did a
great job so as I was in desperate need I had mine done as well. Her salon is a
plastic chair out the back door overlooking the harbour sitting beside all the
cruisers waiting for their laundry to be done. The haircut can take awhile
depending on how many interruptions she has…
While doing laundry I met a couple – Barry and Sue - who now live in
Chilliwack BC but were from New Germany/Oakland and it turns out they haul out
at Riverside as well and also friends with all the LaHave crew there! We ended
up going for lunch and later to happy hour with them. The next morning we met them for a walk
to the beach as Sue showed me how to find “goat turd” beads for jewelry making.
After our walk and lunch the winds were great so we headed on to Staniel
Cay, which was only a two-hour sail. Once settled in Staniel, Barry and Sue
joined us on our boat for a get together. Sunday morning as Richard and I were
doing our reading I happened to notice a strange object, which seemed to be
slowly descending from the sky behind our boat but it was hard to tell the
distance away or the size of the object because we didn’t know what it was. I
pointed it out to Richard and we both were trying to figure out what it was as
it splashed into the water about 200 ft away. Our best guess is that it was
mechanical thing, which Richard thought must have been a drone of some sort.
Richard wanted to go look for it but I did not want to go so he called up Barry
to come over and help look for this object. Before Barry arrived a guy on a
seadoo came out from the shore and seemed to be searching for something but he
was in the wrong area. Richard took our dinghy out and showed them where it
went in. They were from one of the big mega yachts and had been playing with
their remote control drone it when they lost control of it. Richard located the
drone and the owners offered to buy him a beer for this but we didn’t see them
again.
We met up with
Barry and Sue again for lunch at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club and said our
goodbyes as they were heading to Pipe Cay and we were going to get diesel and
head over to Big Majors. Once settled at Big Majors we headed over to see the
pigs on the beach but it was around 4pm and they had obviously been fed very
well that day as most of them didn’t even get up from there beds of warm sand
as we approached. We had a quiet night at anchor and after supper watched a
very weird science fiction movie that left both of us saying “huh?” at the end…
Tomorrow we think that we will head for Compass Cay.
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