Georgetown - the Floating City

When we came into Elizabeth Harbour on Saturday night, we anchored on the Great Exuma Island side of the harbour in Kidd Cove. Then on Sunday when winds were predicted from the south, we moved to behind the "Peace and Plenty Hotel." Well the winds ended up being more west/northwest and it turned into a very lumpy few days and nights in this location. (History lesson: The Peace and Plenty was named after the ship that transferred Lord John Rolle's many slaves to the Exumas and slaves were once
bought and sold on the site where the hotel now sits.) From this location we did finally get four loads of laundry done (having to bag the clean clothes in large garbage bags to keep them from getting soaked with salt water on the way back to the boat. Michael also did two very wet runs to fill jugs of diesel. These trips required the donning of full raingear and lots of bailing of the dinghy to keep it from sinking. It was a slow, wet ride back to Astarte.

Today, Tuesday, we moved again. This time across the harbour to Stocking Island. This is where the vast majority of boats anchor in locations along the western shore of the island(the best protection from prevailing winds). There are lots of places and they all have interesting (and descriptive) names. There are the holes, monument beach, hamburger beach, volleyball beach and sand dollar beach (where we are.) It's packed here but the seas are much flatter - so it is way more comfortable.

Today was also "internet day." We took our laptop into town and Michael got in line at J&K Productions Computer Shop - one of the better wireless deals in town. He was there before they opened and third in line. Unfortunately - they don't allow Skype there - so phone calls were not possible. We'll try again for calls tomorrow someplace else.

THERE ARE NEW PICTURES ON THE WEB SITE ON THE PHOTO PAGE. (Captions still to follow). We know you want more photos - but we have to get internet to be able to post them. We're getting better about carrying the camera - it's just posting them is the issue when you're on a boat. We are on a budget so we don't have a fancy satellite phone or worldwide wireless. If someone wants to sponsor us and send it to us - we'll be happy to post more often!!

It was good to catch up on all our e-mails from friends and family. Thanks for sending all the comments, contacts and e-mails to our other accounts. It was a fun day to feel re-connected with people.

Back on the boat we did a little dinghy exploring in our new location, watched boats anchor around us (always entertaining), defrosted the freezer, baked banana bread and enjoyed some grilled mahi from our catch!

Check out the pics - and keep in touch.