We’ve had a busy few days and it’s been mostly social! Yesterday, Laurie and I crossed the harbour in our dinghy and trekked to the “real” grocery store. So far, we’ve been picking up groceries in a little spot in town where the prices are inflated, much like corner stores at home. White’s is a significantly larger grocery store with anything we’d ever want or need.
Sometime yesterday morning, among many of the boats arriving, a single hander anchored between Sayonara and Cat Tales. After talking to him, we realized that he is a fellow who came directly from the hippie age. He told us of his past when he demonstrated against just about everything. His grey dread knots are indicative of his unique attitudes and style, and although he says he calms down, he admits his car is held together with stickered slogans.
We had a community feast on Cat Tales last night. I cooked up 2 pork tenderloins in a peanut slather in a look bag over a couple hours in our little “kenner’s easy bake” oven, along with a special rice recipe. Walter from “Madness” came with 2 types of squash and Kristen and David from Sayonara arrived with crackers, cheese and fresh broccoli. Bill and Bubbles, his Chihuahua, brought a beautiful red wine. We watched the sun set at 5:00 and ate by candlelight outside in the cockpit. Bill was very touched that we’d include him in our merriment after just meeting him. He did the 6 day passage from the US coast by himself and was exhausted! By 9:00 all that was left to do was the dishes, which Laurie took care of all by himself while I read in bed! I don’t think there was a pot that didn’t get used!
This morning, we need to get out and get fuel for our dinghy and I’d like to get into this little town to do a bit of shopping. Because Grant Sinclair, our crew for the second leg, will be here a week from today, it’s time to get all these little things done. The reason we’ve been here so long is that our insurance on the boat won’t allow for us to be in the Caribbean before December 1st, so we’ll head out sometime around November 23rd for the 7 day passage. We anticipate, nay we demand that this leg should be a smoother ride than the trip across the Gulf Stream.
Tonight we’ll dinghy over to St. David’s Island as we’ve been invited to have dinner with one of the Bermuda Radio personnel, Danny Little and his wife Jo. We met Danny early on in our stay. He has some mooring balls which we were interested in renting from him. It turned out that he didn’t have exactly what we needed, but we chatted for most of that morning as he enlightened us on many aspects and history of the island. We’re looking forward to more interesting tidbits tonight!
Dawn
