Saturday January 29, 2011

Again I was awake before the sunrise. I guess that when you go to bed at 9PM it is realy easy to wake up early. I made a pot of coffee. Today I was able to add some Carnation milk as cream. It made the coffee taste a little better. For the past several days, I have been drinking the morning coffee with out cream. I turned to cottage cheese about three days ago. I ran out of ice.

Energized from the coffee, I assembled the dingy. This was a real trick. I had to put the floor board in, blow it up all from the cockpit of the WaterMark. It took two attempts to get the dingy assembled correctly. I kept thinking of the Christmas Eves when Sandy would buy toys for the children and they needed to be assembled. At least this dingy did not need batteries.

When Lee and Janice returned from breakfast, Lee helped me lift the motor off WaterMark and on to the dingy. I then put the gas tank in the dingy. Pressurized the fuel then pulled the start cord. The 1958 Evinrude jumped to life. I proudly drove the dingy all over the White Harbor. It was fun! The dingy will get up on plane. I think that the top speed of the dingy is about 15 MPH. While driving around, I noticed that there was a leak in the dingy. Not enough to sink the boat, but enough to get your feet wet.

My traveling friends, rented a golf cart and invited me to come on a little trip to New Plymouth. New Plymouth is the village around the next bay. Green Turtle Cay has a population of 450. Both while and black residents. The white residents her are the descendents of the Loyalists who came here in the seventeen hundreds to escape the Revolutionary War in America and remain loyal to King George.

The black residents are the freed slaves of the loyalists.

This is a beautiful Island paradise. Wish that Sandy was here to share in the beauty.

I am updating this entry from the Green Turtle Club. The Internet connection is on and off. Today it has mostly been off. I just tried to Skype Sandy. The connection was so bad that she could hear every other word. We looked at each other and blew kisses at each other.

Tomorrow I must find the cause of the leak in the dinghy.