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Thu 14 Apr 2011 22:23
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April 14, 2011
We awoke restless. Missing the family. What
to do? Clean the waterline of the boat? Pull maintenance on the
dinghy? Do laundry? The weather report was great: calm winds, calm
seas. Time to get out of town. The dinghy was hoisted to its
place up-top. So we rigged the fishing gear, pulled anchor and
exited Elizabeth Harbour via a new cut. Although reef rimmed the Garmin
chartplotter led us through safely. Calling Jim and Janie of Pirate
on the VHF radio, we told them of our new plans. We trolled the 25
miles to Calabash Bay. As soon as we were at sea we had a fish.
Sadly it was a big barracuda and we let it go. We hoped it boded well for
a successful catch, but we saw no other fish the entire time. We enjoyed
the trip over, ate lunch in the cockpit, and sunned. The solitude was
nice. The NE swell was blessedly absent. I caught up on some mail,
both email and snail. Eric delivered our pile of accumulated mail, but we
had no time to really go through it. We did check out the last of our
Christmas cards right away. There were few bills, we have most on
automatic payments. Son David and his wife Karen collect our mail, go thru
the important stuff, pay any stray bills. We are truly lucky to have them
looking after things for us in our absence. Ahead of sunset we arrived at
Calabash and dropped anchor. There were only a couple other boats there, none
close by. A lone sailboat was on the horizon, probably headed here.
I always forget how beautiful the water is here, so little disturbance, so few
boats. It is even clearer here. We would grill our supper, watch
sunset, then relax for a few hours. Bahama days are often like this: each
the same, but each different. Tomorrow we will launch the dinghy and spend
the exploring and fishing. Sometimes just the ride is the real activity of
the day.
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