Black Point Day 3

We have breakfast early and head to the Rockside Laundry to actually do laundry.

 

Rockside Laundramat from the dinghy dock

Most of the boats in the harbor have been here longer than us and apparently did their laundry before we got here, because Linda is almost finished with our stuff before anyone else shows up. Well, so much for buying the machine tokens the day before, to beat the early morning rush. The Laundry is open 24 hours a day, but you can only buy tokens when the store is open. Unfortunately we need one more token and have to wait for Ida, the owner to open the store. Ida has to quickly leave because the Wednesday mail boat is in, note this is Thursday not Wednesday. Ah, the Bahamas.

Mailboat Day, busy dock, people picking up their stuff.

Linda offers to mind the store and sell tokens for Ida. 

 

Linda's new part time job working for Ida

After we finish laundry and Ida returns we head out for a long walk to the south side of Black Point. When we return we head to DeShannons for a very nice lunch. We run into a couple from England that we met two years ago, first at Ladies Island, South Carolina at Thanksgiving and later again in the Bahamas. They had sailed over from England on a Catamaran and we had assumed they sailed back. Well, they now leave their boat in Florida each spring and head back to England for the summer.

We head back to Rockside Laundry and take our laundry back to the boat. A minute later Linda looks back to see our dinghy drifting quickly away from our boat. The dinghy rope is still tied to Manana. With the high winds the dinghy is moving too fast to swim after it. Someone quickly announces on the VHF that a dinghy is on the loose. Dave & Polly “Illusions” from New Bern, next to us have already sprung into action and chase down our dinghy in theirs, not an easy task with all this wind. A handle on our dinghy, that I tied the dinghy line I had assumed to be plastic coated metal turns out to be all plastic and after four years, broke.

Later in the afternoon we go to happy hour at Scorpios with Lisa and Craig to play dominoes. On the way we run into Gary and Heather “Maewyn” and invite them to join us, which they do later. Gary's parents are on the boat with their boys, so they get shore leave for a couple hours. 

Gary, Linda, Lisa, Heather and Craig

 

Linda, Lisa & Heather

Ryan and Renee “Poerava” join us and we have a good time, but never get around to playing dominoes. We talk until it is almost dark and then head back to our boats. Our new Yamaha is running a little rough lately so Lisa and Craig escort us back to our boat.