George Town…already!

It’s hard to believe that we have been travelling on the water now for 7 weeks and we’re in George Town! It’s been an amazing journey from Bimini to here and we still have the Raggeds and Cuba to go before we head home and then back to the USA.
Reflecting on this first cruising experience, I can say that this is an incredible way to live. I think I mentioned this earlier but it’s worth repeating- life is so simple. You think about wind, water, food, and of course, emptying those pesky black water tanks! We listen to Chris Parker, our weather guru, at the ungodly hour of 6:30am, to find out the wind for the upcoming few days and then make decisions as to where to go and anchor. 

One thing I didn’t mention earlier is that Mark hurt his back almost 2 weeks ago now. He was bringing in our big fortress anchor as we were leaving Little Bay and pulled something. It was a rough first week but his back is slowly getting better. That was a real eye opener for us. Mark does most if not all of the heavy lifting on our boat and he was out of commission. So I picked up what I could. It was good in one way because now I know how to run the water-maker and bring in the anchor. I can also set the snubber and a few other things. Mark’s back is getting better and it won’t be long before he is back to normal.

Impressions of George Town: first of all, this Harbour has many names – chicken Harbour because many get here and don’t go on; Velcro Harbour…for the same reason. We arrived thinking we’d stay for a week and then travel around a bit to see where we could go when Caroline arrived but now we’re thinking we’ll just hang out here – Velcro Harbour has got a hold of us!!!! It is a very cool place because there are so many cruisers here. At 8 am each morning there is a cruisers net that broadcasts on channel 72. We get the weather and all the news -activities, boat help, for sale stuff, new arrivals and departures. It’s very cool. We’ve even met up with the boat from Newfoundland – Jill and Mike.

Here are a few photos for George Town and area.