Dear Friends and Family,
When we arrived in Cape Santa Maria
on June 20th, our friends aboard S/V Jingle were anchored in the
anchorage. Knowing we wouldn’t be staying in the area long, we didn’t want to
bother with unloading the dinghy from our deck. So once we were anchored and
settled, Jimi hailed our friends aboard S/V Jingle about possible dinner plans.
Within minutes plans were set in place. They would pick us up (free taxi) and
we would all go to shore for happy hour and a nice dinner at the resort. The
happy hour cocktail was called Bay Breeze, which is made with rum, coconut rum,
and pineapple juice (my new favorite). Jimi and I shared a meal of blackened
grouper, rice and vegetables. Eric and Sandrine invited us aboard their boat
for after dinner drinks including a free taxi ride back to Sanibel.
The following day we had plans to
explore the Christopher Columbus monument, but Sandrine got a migraine headache
and had to stay in. Jimi and I enjoyed our day resting up, but again that
evening they invited us over for barbecued pork spare ribs. Their food and
company is always such a pleasure.
Saturday we left
Cape Santa Maria. Sailing together, we were able to get pictures under way of
each other’s vessels. We’ve been wanting pictures of Sanibel with her sails up
and now we’ve got some! Here is a link to a short 13 second video of Sanibel
sailing: http://youtu.be/t5fj-W9dPlE. A beautiful day and sail, we arrived in Georgetown late that afternoon.
Georgetown has been fun and again
we’ve spent several nights aboard Jingle with Eric and Sandrine. We spent a day
on shore doing laundry and shopping together and then ate a light lunch at
Peace and Plenty.
The following morning Jingle moved
across the harbor to anchor by Stocking Island, be we remained close to town. A
few hours later Randy showed up. Remember Randy in S/V Kataboo? We’ve run in to
him on at least five islands in the Bahamas over the past six weeks or so. He
was headed to the Dominican Republic, but blew out his head sail, so he’s back
to get it repaired.
We hooked up with four or five other
couples, Eric, Sandrine, Randy and four young kids from England for a potluck
and bon fire. Good food, good company and a beautiful view – it doesn’t get
much better than that. The kids from England, all 25 years of age, bought a 50
foot boat in Florida a few months ago. They are sailing it to Jamaica.
Hey…that’s where we were going to go and these kids are right up our alley.
They are on a much stricter budget then we are, so they don’t motor AT ALL.
While the thought could have crossed my mind for a split second to turn around
and boat buddy with them to Jamaica, Jimi said we’ll continue with our modified
plan. The kids left Friday afternoon.
Mortifoid….mortifoid…mortified
was the only word that repeated through my head over, over and over after Eric
and Sandrine from S/V Jingle came over Friday mid-morning. They popped over to
say hello and ask us about going for a hike. It was the first time they had
boarded Sanibel and it was the worst timing. Sanibel was a mess: the liter box
needed cleaning, the trash needed emptying (both of which smelled), cat hair,
dust, sand, lint (the stuff normal sweeping takes care of)and things were
laying all over, rather than being put away in their places. I normally follow
a cleaning ritual every morning and I’m pretty good about getting it done every
morning. The methodical side of me almost always makes sure things are put away
in their place and cleaned (unless in use), or I go mad. I can only hope that
Eric and Sandrine understand the situation and do not think of us as grubby
people. As soon as they left, all I could feel was mortified as I began
cleaning…..ha.
We’ve mentioned a few times in
the past that our wind generator was not working and then we wrote and said
false alarm….all is well. It’s official now…it’s broke! A few months ago we
purchased new back up blades, which do us no good now, because the motor has
failed. Jimi spent an entire day taking it apart and racking his brain with no
success. We must get by on only solar power until we can come up with a solution.
Sunny days don’t seem to be a problem, but what will we do on cloudy days?
Hmmmm
I’m sending this post before we
leave Georgetown, since it’s been a while, but we’ll have more fun things to
share about Georgetown visit in our next post. Hopefully (fingers crossed)
we’ll be working our way down the Jumentos next time you hear from us. A funny
thing happened to us when we were in town Friday afternoon. We met a fella
named John from the United States and as we were talking he said “Have you guys
heard about the BBQ tomorrow night on Hamburger Beach?” Uhhh – ya that’s us.
Haha. Jimi and I arranged to BBQ with Randy, Eric and Sandrine on Hamburger
Beach Saturday night and apparently the word spread. I wonder how many people will
show up. J So, more to come on Georgetown.
Hope all is well with you!
Love everybody,
Lorie & Jimi
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