Black Point and a church fund raiser
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Date Saturday 31 March 2012 Spring must be coming, well the stirrings of requiring to do a bit of
boat spring cleaning made themselves felt. Getting the salt off the outside is
easy of you have unlimited water. When you are making all of the stuff it pays
to be somewhat parsimonious but he job had to be done, at least on the hatches
and cockpit windows. We can now see where we are going and today that was all
of 9 miles to the Black Pint Settlement where the guide promised us something a
little less frenetic than Staniel Cay and a charming local community. The guide is not wrong. AS we are getting used to having little depth
feeling our way into the anchorage with a metre under the keel was less
stressful than in the past and we anchored in just under a metre a 100m away
from Richard and Penny on Penelope, last seen in Morgan’s Bluff. They took us ashore in their dinghy to visit the
and a generally sociable gathering of the local community who welcomed
us most warmly. Black Point appears to be a thriving community and much better ordered
and tidy than others that we have visited. One of the cottage industries is
the weaving of palm leaves into long mats that are then taken to
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