I was up early - couldn't sleep - I think it was 5:30am and pitch dark outside with a celestial sphere of stars . No moon that I could see and the light pollution was minimal.
I got up and sat in the cockpit to watch the sunrise from the very beginning. Really cool. You first heard the roosters crowing in the distance but no perceptible change in the lighting. Then finally just a slight brightening in the East which grew brighter ever so slowly. Then the stars started to disappear as the brightness increased. Then after awhile a yellow glow appears on the horizon but still no sun and the few clouds all show a brightening red hue on their undersides. Why don't we
watch this more often?? Hmmmm took nearly 80 minutes - I guess that is why.
It was really pleasurable because the wind had finally died and there was just less energy in the atmosphere.
I had a light breakfast and a couple of cups of coffee. I listened to the BASRA weather and position reports at 7am, the WRCC net at 7:45am and the Cruizenheimers net at 8:30. Truly a lazy start to the day.
We went to town around 9:30am to go to the cruisers book exchange at the library - it still wasn't open. The hours are Mon, Wed, Fri 2pm - 5pm and Sat 9-12am except holidays. Ohh we'll - we took the time to wander around town to the housing that is less traveled. You could hear voices coming from the small rather plain homes. I felt like a voyeur so we went back to the main roads. Down to the Liquor store/café and left reservations for "Dave's famous Chicken Souse" for Tuesday - tomorrow. It
is only served on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Then back to the boat to relax.
I went to the Green Turtle club to top off the gas for the dinghy and get another 12 gallons of diesel for the big boat. They were out of gas -- no idea when next shipment would be but had diesel at $3.74 a gallon - damn it was 3.48 a week ago Sunday. I wonder what changed?? Paying with the credit card was a pain. The clerk had to call it in and that took 3 phone calls. Then as they were trying to give her the confirmation number she kept asking to repeat because she couldn't hear well - her
tunes were playing and she wasn't about to turn the volume down - oh well it is their island.
Mid afternoon we went back to the library. Hooo ray it was open. They had a great selection of books to chose from. The exchange is 1 for 1 so we got 5. Then back to the boat. While traveling in White Sound the water was very calm and clear and suddenly we motored over a group of 5 manta rays swimming in formation. Probably 4 -5 foot wing spans - really cool.
Ohh this place cleared out this morning. There was less than 10 boats here by noon. Because of the mild conditions most had left to get around the Whale cut and on to Fisher's bay or Marsh Harbour. There was still a contingent of boats that left on Saturday/Sunday up at Manjack Cay having a great time - we should have went there. many will be returning tomorrow so we will probably just stay put here and enjoy our Chicken Souse and read some of these fine books we picked up today. Plans??? Just
another lazy day in the Abacos.
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