Wow -- we haven't been into a marina since December 26 so it was with great pleasure that we tied up in Mangoes Marina in Marsh Harbour the other day. Gosh they all run together now but I think it was Tuesday this week.
Mangoes is the least expensive marina here at 90 cents a foot till the end of February and is just full of nice cruisers and Ray the manager who is the best -- friendly and accommodating.
Ohh man no worries about a dragging an anchor or a poor mooring line. Just tied up with 5 lines to pilings. On the flip side there are all kinds of shopping and restaurants available. Well we did them all. The first day was like a vacation and we did nothing,then we worked hard and cleaned the boat from stem to stern the next day, then it was provisioning time, then we went to Snappas Bar and Grill for lunch and a GREAT Cheeseburger....
Then back to reality today -- it is the Bahamas. We did laundry. Well first off you can't start early enough because some one always starts earlier than you do. We ended up waiting till noon for a washer to become available -- they have 2 washers and dryers here at Mangoes. we started the wash and it ran fine then Karen started the drying. Around 2:30pm she awakes me from a nap to says that the dryers are not drying -- no heat. I investigate and sure enough no heat. I inspect the dryers and they are gas. I tell Ray the marina manager and he checks and sure enough they have run out of propane -- no more till Monday at the earliest.
Well there is a taxi stand right next door at the Ferry dock so I get a cab to take us to the commercial laundry in town. Only 7 dollars but a long walk with wet laundry. Once there it only takes us 20 minutes in the big commercial dryers to dry everything. Then a call to the taxi to go back -- too far to walk with all that laundry. Thus the cost was an additional $14 dollars for the taxi but worth it.
The dock and tenants are great. Each night near sundown many gather on the dock to blow their conch horns at the setting sun -- should be done just as the curve of the sun drops below the horizon. I got caught up in this and bought 2 nice conch shells from Hollywood George who does the conch salad just outside the marina here -- only $5 a apiece. I had to cut the tip off and clean out the end so you could blow in it. I had to repair the hole they make to get the conch meat out with some epoxy putty then clean and test. They both sounded fine so I gave one to Vickie on Victoria Gaye. We joined the crowd and enjoyed blowing our horns with them.. We were not great but acceptable to the crowd. Practice will make us both better.
Tomorrow we hope to leave in better weather and enjoy more of the Abacos -- maybe Great Guyana Cay and Nippers tomorrow and Man O War on Monday and Tuesday and then back to Treasure Cay for the weekend -- yippee.
It's back on the anchor for us.
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