Getting ready to move on -- for a little while

Not too much to report today. Sort of a day of “due diligence”.

We have been at the marina for a week and it is time to move on. It has been restful and a time to catch our breath so it has been time well spent.

We don’t want to go too far because we want to be back here by New Years for the Junkanoo. Several of the boats anchored here left this morning and went up to Manjack Cay (about 8 miles) to play up there – walking trails and lobster fishing and happy hour on the beach. I suspect we will join them tomorrow. I understand that an ex cruising couple own it and a very cruiser friendly -- even set up a free WiFi antenna for the favorite anchorage area there.

Today I filled the diesel tank from the 24 gallons in Jerry cans on the deck – that fuel was getting old. I washed the boat sparingly using that .20 cents a gallon water and refilled our water tanks. Then we went to town to the library for the cruisers book exchange. Unfortunately it was not open today. It has Saturday hours 9-12 but I guess they consider this a holiday since it follows so closely with Christmas and Boxing Day.

We spent an hour or so walking the town and picking up some frozen orange juice and fresh bread to tie us over for a few days. Ohhh Fresh bread is $4.50 a loaf and Natures Own is $4.75. Some no name carton of orange juice is $5.55 and a Minute Made Frozen Orange Juice is $3.75 -- just a feeling for food prices here. We toured the local cemetery which is quite different from how they are in the US – pictures to follow and I found a little seafood market where I bought 2 lobster tails – 1lb for $14. That will be New Years dinner.,

Then after lunch it was over to the Green Turtle Club to do laundry. Over here there is only one working washing machine and 2 dryers. Over there it is 4 working washers and dryers and a nice beach that we played bocce ball on while waiting for the laundry.

That pretty much consumed the day for me. Karen wanted to do a little sewing project so that kind of got in the way of an early blog today -- sharing table with computer with fabric cutout and sewing machine.

We had dinner with the New Bern contingent again at the Bluff House. We have been here too – long. The waitress asked if we knew what we wanted without giving us any menus!!

The rest of this short evening will be spent readying the boat to travel tomorrow – not much required since we plan on just 8 miles. BUT it takes some effort to unplug after you have been at the dock awhile.