A Forest fire

Once the weather moderated we decided to run over to marsh harbour for some provisioning and to treat the house batteries to an Equalization cycle. The batteries have been charging but not deeply.

We went to mangoes marina for a couple of days. It is probably the friendliest with the dock master Reye and the most inexpensive. We arrived early morning and then went about the immediate chores of getting to a bank for some cash and to see if we could convert one of our Iphone 5S's to the new carrier in town -- Bealiv. They have great call and data packages. We went to their main hub and unfortunately they will not work with the 5S. They need a 6 or later.

Then on to the bank a RBC bank auto teller. Man they wanted to charge a $32 money conversion -- the US dollar is less than the Bahamain? Oh well we bit but then found out from other cruisers that the Scotia bank did not have that fee. Grrrr.

We shopped a bit then back to the marina. After lunch I found "Hollywood George" making conch salad on the sidewalk out front -- his is the BEST. Had to have some.

The next day we went to the Supermarket early and dropped a couple of hundred on provisions -- all good stuff. Back on the boat via Taxi for just $6. We went to SNAPPAS sports bar for lunch. Karen had their famous cheeseburger and I had the fish and chips -- fish was GROUPER! More GOOD stuff.

BAck on the boat to finish laundry. Karen did 2 loads yesterday and 2 loads today. Mangoes is the place to do it since it is only $3.50 a load to wash and $3.50 to dry. Most other places are $5.50 -- it adds up.

Water is only $5 a day at Mangoes where everywhere else it is .38 cents a gallon.

In the evening we could smell smoke. With little wind to disperse it got WORSE. We had to close the boat up. As we looked around town we could see a think haze around all the lights. There was a major forest fire near by an it was bad. In the Bahamas they just let them burn themselves out or pray for rain. Tomorrow is supposed to be a very rainy day which is unusual here in the winter time.

With bad weather forecast for tomorrow and Monday Hopetown is filling up again. It should not be bad like last weekend just rain and cold air ohhh the forecast low on Monday is 62 degrees which is frigid here.