Real Bahamian Chicken Souse

Today we had our first classic Cold Front come through this season. The wind clocked all the way around. It started this morning from the SE to S to SW were the strongest winds were from, then finally W and NW. The change from SW to NW was very dramatic. We had some dark clouds come over around 4:30pm with a distinct line of white clouds just behind them. The wind picked up, had some rain shower and BAM wind switched to W and NW and dropped down to less than 15kts. Most of the wind today was around 20 or less with a few higher gusts. Not too bad really. Tomorrow is forecast to have light winds during the day then strong tomorrow night as a reinforcing cold front comes through. I guess we will be "stuck" here again Monday so might as well make the most of it and play JACKS Bingo Monday night.

Around noon I got a hankering for some Chicken Souse. There were some youth football games planned in the park and food vendors would be there -- their moms. So I wandered over there to check it out. Sure enough along with soda drinks and sweet rolls and hamburgers and cheese burgers they had a BIG pot of chicken Souse. I ordered a bowl. Not what I expected. As the lady was laddeling it out I saw whole chicken wings, thighs, and drumsticks deposited in my bowl along with the broth and veggies. WOW I mean whole wings with the skin still on. Karen couldn't watch me eat it but it was good and the meat just fell off the bones. I even got some limes with real Bird Peppers skewered to them. They were good. Not hot like jalepeno but very spicy.

They also included a big chunk of Johnny Cake -- a very dense kind of white bread. All washed down with real Bahamian Sands beer

Ummmm Good.

A new Farkle Queen is Crowned

Last night Buck and Vickie came over to play some Farkle. Vickie is a newbie and Buck has never played (very newbie). We played 3 games. Karen easily won the first game then Vickie made some great moves and won the other 2 games. Clearly she is the new Farkle Queen. Barb and Dovie now have a challenger. Hopefully we can get together soon and see who really is the Farkle Queen -- sort of like a Super Bowl or Super Farkle playoff.

This weekend is forecast to have some inclement weather and maybe we can have a PLAYOFF!!

Today I went to the skippers meeting of the Hopetown sailing club to see what was going on for their big race today. Not much happening at the skippers meeting but lots of boats turned out for the race and they had a great party afterwards. Their pride and joy the ABACO RAGE sailed into the harbour and around this afternoon and it looked great.. We didn't go to the party but we could here the wild goings on from the Harbour.

This afternoon we went up into the lighthouse and got some great pictures of the area. It is always a treat to climb the lighthouse here. You just go in and climb. No imposing guards or folks telling what you can or cannot do you just go and enjoy. Something you could never do in the USA!

Afterwards Karen said she needed a beach fix -- short for "I need to hunt sea glass". I took here in but didn't want to walk the beach today. So back on the boat for me to hard boil some eggs and read -- tough afternoon. She came back over an hour later and she had quite the haul of sea glass. She said she found more to day than all the other days this trip combined. She was a happy happy person.

Tonight just a simple crab cake dinner aboard and time to enjoy a lovely night. Ohh, did I say the high today was 76 degrees and the low tonight will be 70?? That's why we are here.