Spanish Cay, Wonderful Sailing, Not So Wonderful Everything-Else

We took another day off at Spanish Cay Marina. There was a cold front headed through the area, and it seemed like it mostly passed Saturday night, but we decided to stay put until the Whale Cay passage had calmed down a little. It was a beautiful island, so we did some exploring. We rented a golf cart and went to the beach and tide pools near the airport. The instructions for the golf cart were "don't drive on the runway because planes do land, but you can drive along the side of the runway." We packed sandwiches and had a picnic lunch at the tide pools before it started to rain again. We raced back to the boat once the rain started, cheering as the golf cart puttered up the small hills.

After the rain, we did some fishing off the docks. Ben caught a beautiful yellow amber jack. It was probably just big enough, but we decided to throw it back. After that we only had bad luck - we lost several hooks to the rocks.

The wind on Monday was great and we had a beautiful sail. Real Sail! The engine was up and we were hitting 8 knots at times. Unfortunately, everything else started to go wrong. Our battery, which was slowly dying is now dying much quicker. We were thinking about trying to get a replacement on the same boat over as our motor, but couldn't quite make the noon deadline. Even worse news though, in talking to the shipping company, our motor did not make the noon deadline either. We called yamaha yesterday at 1:00 to ask what the miscommunication was, because we thought we had been very clear on the deadline, and the motor left southport Thursday early afternoon. We are still waiting for a return phone call.

After anchoring at White Sound in Green Turtle Cay we discovered our toilet has been smelling not so good because the holding tank was clogged and completely full. I'll leave out the gory details but we took a trip into New Plymouth this morning and purchased a plumbers snake, and the clog has been fixed, making our home habitable again.

Calling Home!