Lubber Quarters -- land of "hard aground sailboats"

Boy Lubbers Quarters is shallow!! We didn’t bump but other boats were hard aground when we arrived at Tahiti Beach on Elbow Cay. We came down on a falling tide so I was alert. The path is pretty well mapped to Tahiti beach but becomes dicey south of there.

Tahiti Beach is okay but not really the spectacular vista as described in the Steve Dodge guide. However we did find several very small baby Conchs which we left in the water and an assortment of Starfishes of different size. The shelling here is nearly non existent. Ohh and on the plus side??!! Good internet WiFi.

We will see how it plays out this evening under the nearly full moon – should be beautiful with little light pollution.

Another lesson learned back at Marsh Harbour this morning. I wanted to get going early today to refuel and rewater the boat and leave while there was still about half tide but that didn’t happen. I hustled Karen to get the hook up by 9am but there was no one working at either Marsh Harbour Marina or Harbour View. I yelled at some folks on the dock at Marsh Harbour and they said it opens at 10am on Sunday. So we came in and took a place at the fuel dock. Then we learned it did not open to 11am!!! Well I still had plenty of fuel but we were down to 40 gallons of water. WHOA – Luna Sean only carried 34 gallons!!! Ohh well we stayed tied up and used the time judiciously to do some reading and figure out why the stop button in the cockpit no longer stopped the engine!!! I’ve been going below and working the fuel rack by hand to stop it.

Once the Dock master showed up he was about 50% there. Young guy who had really tied one on last night!! Glad those days are past me.

We took on 18 gallons of diesel in the main tank and 12 gallons in Jerry cans on the deck – there is a 10% discount for purchases over 25 gallons. Then filled the dinghy tank with 4 gallons of gas and about 140 gallons of water – ouch $26 dollars worth. But that is okay.. We haven’t bought water since we left the dock at GTC which was before New Years..

We have another strong cold front coming in Tuesday with weather deteriorating tomorrow night. Thus we need to find an all weather anchorage. Will try Hope Town in the morning – but if full then Man O War and if full then back to Marsh Harbour.