Finally Arrived

It's difficult to describe but all the places we have been coming and into the Bahamas it just never felt like we were really there. Surprisingly when we arrived here in Marsh Harbour today I finally felt I had arrived.

It's difficult because I never really enjoyed Marsh Harbour that much before, but today I feel a real peacefulness riding on the hook in Marsh Harbour. in the past it was only a place for provisions and laundry.

Probably because there are so few boats here. Tonight I counted only 25 on the hook. I remember back in 2006 I counted as many as 98 here one day when I was a Volunteer weather reporter for BASRA.

We plan to stay a few days and re-provision a bit and then move on. I haven't checked Hope Town mooring availability but I expect it to be poor. There are more rental sailboats out and about then I have ever seen before but is probably due to the holidays. I have never been here before the lst of the year before.

The weather is unbelievably mild for so many days. I sure hope we don't have to pay for this later.

We are anchored here tonight along with Bubbles and Skat. Got down here late like 4pm today so no exploring tonight but tomorrow we will show those other crews around. Hopefully I'll have some good reports and nothing so dismal as my Guana Cay report.

Ohh kudos to the self serve laundry in Treasure Cay. We took 2 loads in today and the lady that runs it showed us to commercial washing machines. We loaded and went to the grocery. Twenty five minutes later we returned to load into the dryer and the lady said she had low water pressure and it just started to wash. She offered to throw all into dryers later. So we left and returned an hour and half later. She had dried and folded all the stuff and packed in our bags. The cost was 4$ per load to wash and dry and thus $16. I gave her a twenty and said no change. It was a delightful surprise.