The Captain C Done Reach Duncan Town

As is often the case the mailboat, The Captain C done reach Duncan Town a day late this past week. In the Bahamas one has to be patient and never in a hurry. Since we were already in Southside Bay and ready to go we decided to hike into town and take the computer to do some internet. I was able to do a couple of postings; however the signal wasn't strong enough to use Skype to call my mom (calls using the computer). Batelco can often be experiencing problems and using the internet here is another way to test one's patience. To upload each of the pictures on the blog might take upwards to 10 minutes so you can see how one can spend several hours doing computer work. The school lets the cruisers use their signal in return for donations. The local teacher insisted on driving us back to the bay at the end of the afternoon after several frustrating, but reasonably successful computer hours. We were happy for the lift as it was late pm and we were carrying some oranges and grapefruit for First Edition and ourselves.

The following day I spent some time paddling and shelling. I was delighted to find this huge, empty west indian chank shell on my travels. One can shell for days and not find anything and then happen upon a great find. Rob went ashore with his two large green garbage bags and cleaned the beach. This he finds satisfying even though the bags are filled almost immediately. The dump is on the way into town so this is his added incentive....save the world!? In the afternoon we hiked into town with Peter to pick up our few groceries. The picture shows how Peter and Rob cope with grocery day?! Lynn was running a fever and fighting an infection from a cut on her leg after her fall so she is still recuperating. Her face has four stitches and she is very bruised and swollen; however she remains positive and hopeful that she will not have any scarring.

we bought some lobster tails and fish from Percy who is somewhat of a local icon in Duncan Town. He was born here; however he lived in the US for many years as an engineer working in the oil business. Now he seems to do a little of everything....salt production, fishing, construction, and jewellery making. He delivered our snapper just in time for dinner. Rob had given Percy twenty dollars and said give us a mixture of lobster and fish. We got in return 9 small lobster tails, 3 yellowtail snapper and 1 market fish. we were pleased and our freezer has never looked so good.

Lynn and Peter went around by dinghy delivering cake that she had baked the other day before her fall for Jay on Farniente's birthday. Only Lynn would try to hide behind a plastic plate. As of yesterday Dr. Bob took out her four stitches and she is very happy with the way things look. We are often scrambling around on razor rock in These islands so Lynn's fall is a reminder to all of us to be very careful when hiking.