The whole 3 boat crew enjoyed Black Point yesterday. We walked the main road then looked in a store and the laundry mat after the great meal at Loraine’s. We didn’t need anything.. just looking around. The flotilla of dinghies made it back to our boats at Castle Beach just fine. Wings joined us this evening in our little bay, so there were four boats for the night.
Last night the Mexican train domino game was on Jumanji. I went over to watch for a while and left about 8:30. Jono invited “Wings” over to watch a movie on SYL.
This morning Jono was up at daylight to go beachcombing. I got up before he left and had some of mama’s coconut bread for breakfast, what a treat…. The ocean side of Black Point has some major junk washed up, that’s prime hunting grounds for any floatsom you desire. Shoes.. always shoes… I don’t know why but every island you stop on has shoes washed up on the beach. Ever since we started coming to the Bahamas you always see shoes on the beach. Jono has picked up several fishing float balls so that’s a nice find. Hopefully this morning he will come across something awesome. My friends on Crooked Island call the beach Wal Mart. One family was building a house and needed a big 6” wide beam for a support, he found just what he needed washed up on the beach.
Crooked Island acquires some interesting beach trash. My buddy has two military torpedoes and a jet drone aircraft they use for target practice, all was found rolling around on the beach. You never know what you will find. In fact I think I’ll put my hat on and go join Jono on the ocean side.
I walked about a mile or so but didn’t get as far as Jono went. He came back with two more hard plastic fishing float balls and one Pre-war aluminum ball. The metal and blown glass floats are hard to find. I’ve never found a glass ball.
While Mike and Laurie went to the Black Point laundry I put up my giant American flag, I’m talking about a 15 foot long flag. I have been ragging on Mike about his “larger than normal” American flag for weeks (It’s not but that set up the big flag gag). When he rounded the corner coming back from Black Point he saw this huge flag half as long as my boat flying from the top of the mast. He couldn’t believe how big it was… lol. The other day I told Laurie why I kept talking about how huge Mike’s American flag was, so she knew immediately what was going on… it was fun. With Mike it’s all about bigger or faster so the gag went well.
Morning Glory has to be in Barraterri tomorrow so they can deliver their guest to the Georgetown airport via rental car. They made the short hop down to Bock Cay to stage for the drop off and reserve a car. They left before 10 this morning. The rest of the rabble is beach combing at the moment. At 3:30 we (Me-Jono-Mike-Laurie-Greg & Angie) are all loading on SYL for a trip back to Loraine’s for more of that great food! The wind is blowing a little too much to dinghy over, so I’ll park us at Regatta Point on the big boat for the short walk to town. I have my eye on some of those conch fritters, but man that fried fish was some of the best I have ever eaten! Maybe she will make me up a combo platter. Lorraine has very good internet so I’ll bring the computer and upload again. Maybe we can get some pictures on the web as well.
SYL!!