We picked up our anchor yesterday and were very surprised to find our chain and lines were coated with growth. I tried to use my long handled scrub brush to clean it all off as it came out of the water, but it was slimy and stinky, covering both of us before it was all finished. A Canadian couple came along in their dinghy to meet us and asked how long we'd been in this location to grow such crud. When we said that we'd been there for only 2 weeks, we all realized how full of life the bay was. This is not usually a good thing, since much of it could be from septic systems!!! Yuck!
It took only a couple hours to get around the southern tip of the island and up to St. Georges. We're now anchored in water where we can see straight to the bottom! Ahhhh, lovely! This is a busy harbour too, however, so just because you can see to the bottom, doesn't guarantee anything, but physiologically it helps!
We have entered a position report today, so if you have a moment, you can click on it and type in Laurie's ham sign: ve9rum and see just where we are.
We're heading into the mall today to pick up some rum for the season at the duty free spot. We were there about a week ago and the gentleman told us he couldn't care how much we bought. If we'd buy 4 cases, he'd even deliver! That amount isn't in the cards, so we'll carry our back packs and walk the 15 minutes and then schlep it back to the boat.
No photos today as we're picking up a teeny signal from a hotel on shore, just enough to use our Ham Radio email program to put up this entry. It's nice of bloggspot.com to have the ability to email our entries, otherwise we wouldn't get this up at all today!
take care,
Dawn
