Bill's Beach Cottage with a Million Dollar View

View of Sunset looking from Mangoes

Monday April the 15 th

This was day of recouping.  I am not sure if it was the food, the sweetie drinks, the sun, the excitement or all of it put together, but we needed some down time.  At first I thought oh no, what if this is a gall bladder attack, not here, not now.  I basically laid around all day.  George had something a little less serve than my ailments but similar. My stomach was not much better by night fall. I had slept off and on all day. I was really surprised when I heard all the conch shell blowing at sunset.

Tuesday April 16^th

I was much better today.  I felt like doing some retail therapy. We were looking to go home in a week or two so I had to do some serious shopping.  That night was pizza night at Mangoes so we went to Mangoes. Jimmy, the owner was there and talked to us about having an Asian night at the restaurant.  His cook lived in Hong Kong and Rey’s wife was also going to help cook on Saturday night. We saw a beautiful sunset from the restaurant. 

The two guys that cleaned our bottom. They also perform at
snappers.  They do the rake and scrape music.

Wednesday April 17^th

This morning I was walking down the dock just before getting on the boat and George calls out, “Do we need our bottom cleaned?”  I was looking at our slip mate whose wife is French Canadian, and he of course said, “That a little personal don’t you think!!” Of course I replied,  “ my bottom is fine but you can have yours cleaned it you would like”.  We all knew he was talking about our boat bottom.  The couple next to us was having theirs cleaned so we asked the guys to also clean ours too.  The Canadian couple did as well. The two guys who cleaned our bottom were almost like a comedy act. We enjoyed their antics after they finished to job.  The Canadian boat beside us had red moss on it.  It was very hard to clean.  They had been in the Exums and had not had it cleaned in 6 months.  Not sure if that helped our price or hurt it but ours was a little less.  That night we had pecan crushed salmon on the grill.

Salmon on the Grill

Pecan crusted Salmon, Asparagus, rice pilaf

Thursday April 18^th

Today the Buck a Book store is open.  If you remember that is the old trailer that has all the books and DVD’s in it.  You can take one for a dollar and bring it back.  They are only open on Thursday and Friday from 10:00 to 12:00.  If you need to leave a book or a DVD you just put it in a cooler outside the door.  George showed her the DVD we got and ask aren’t you going to write it down?  The lady replied, “Why no we trust you.”  George said I know but what if we put it in the cooler and someone gets it out.  No we never have that to happen, she responded.  So off we went with four DVD’s to watch.  By the way, we do not normally watch TV while we are cursing. 

Found out today that Jack wants to come and that Lynda will be coming with him.  Lynda will fly back and he will ride with us back to Brunswick.  They will get here on the 4^th.  We will be able to hold out until then but don’t think the beer will.  When we provisioned the boat we provisioned for the Keys and not the Bahamas and not for this amount of time.  So we may have to learn to enjoy the Kalik.  I just want to keep George away from the kalik gold. (long story!)

Friday  April 19^th

 We got up this morning with a list of projects to do, but that all changed when Bill called us and wanted us to see his house.  He was to pick us up a 11:00.  We rode past two communities before getting to his house.  I will let the pictures do the talking, however pictures do not do it justice.  I only took pictures of what he calls his forest and his view.  I thought it would be a little intrusive if I took picture of house.   He calls it a beach cottage and I guess that is what it is.  A beach cottage with a million dollar view! It is a lovely place and is solar powered. His battery bank will run the house for two days with no help from the utility company. As long as the sun shines, Bill does not need the power company. 

Bird of Paradise in Bill's yard

Bill's pet Bird...Really

Looking at the North Man o War Cut

Looking at Quana Cay

Looking at Elbow Cay, Hope town Light house can be seen at night.

Hybiscus Tree...Yes tree! About to be in full bloom.

After we got back to the Marina we invited Rey and Bill for some Bar B Que that George had made on his grill at home.  Southern Bar B Q, Bill could not refuse nor could Rey.  We had a great visit.  They wanted us to come back in November where they would have more time to take us fishing. 

Saturday April 20

Today George was going to clean the grill.  It has been burning only on one side.  He proceeded to take the grill apart.  Of course when you work on something, you always meet someone who is willing to help, inters another John from Georgia, an Auburn graduate. However, the grill maybe to far gone to fix, even for a UGA grad assisted by an Auburn grad.  If they had asked this Ole Miss graduate, I would have found some way to rig it up to work.  The burner was all in pieces.

Another view from Bill's house.

Tonight is Asian night.  Yes we have even mentioned it to Rey several times.  We were pretty excited.  We went to Mangoes restaurant and ask what they were serving for Asian night.  To our surprise, the waitress had not heard of such a thing!  Oh well, instead we got smothered grouper.  It was excellent!

Sunday April 21

It was another lazy day in paradise.  Forgot to call the bus for church so didn’t get to go this Sunday.  We never set an alarm to wake up.  It is the sea gulls that wake us up or the cool air coming from the hatch over our bed, or maybe the sunshine coming in. An alarm is just not allowed unless we have to pull anchor early. 

I have not mentioned the freezer problems we have been having. The freezer is staying around 27 degrees to 29 degrees.  We have taken our frozen food and put it in a freezer at Mangoes.  We have defrosted the freezer but it did not seem to improve.  Tomorrow we calling another freezer guy!  Another mechanic!

Monday 22^st

 We walked to the marine store to get a burner for the grill.  They did not have one. As soon as we got back to the boat it poured, a great day for a buck a Book movie.  When we finished the movie the freezer man arrived. Our freezer is now 22 and on a downward trend.