Day 46: Traveling on Water and Land

Brown’s Marina, Bimini, Bahamas (docked)

March 1, 2022

There’s a big blow on the way: heavy winds will be here Friday and Saturday, with wind gusts close to 30 mph from the east. This marina is exposed a bit so we thought we would check into another, more protected, anchorage.  We dinghied over and really liked the area but the internet was awful.  We will be staying here.

We did see a shark in that marina and pretty cool rock crabs.  On our way back to our marina we could see large manta rays in the water under the dinghy

John has secured us with a variety of lines: both to the dock on our starboard and bow sides, as well as the piling to our port.  This should help minimize some of the movement when the wind hits.  There’s some wave pounding tonight but it’s not too terrible and the winds have brought some cooler temps.

John also fixed the davit that broke on our way here.  Yesterday we visited an odd and ends store looking for the bolts we needed.  The older lady who works (maybe owns?) did her best to try to dig through what she had but couldn’t find what we needed.  A search of the stuff that came with Lailia turned up what we needed.  There’s probably some irony in that (and there’s definitely a very cynical, “hmphhh, imagine that! ‘)

Our boat neighbors told us about a bakery they found and we’re also kind enough to allow us to use their golf cart.  We took a tour of the island, including putting through Resort World at the other end of North Bimini.

We broke out a guava cream cheese roll on the ride back to our marina.  We’ll have another for breakfast.

I will be working remotely for the next few days. The ubiquity of easily accessible internet is an American thing – here we have to carefully move the hot spot to get consistently high speeds. I realized today that as much as I think I could work remotely from Lailia during this year, the logistics are going to be difficult. For the first time in 11 years, I had to cancel an assignment at the end of the month. I don’t want us to have to constantly search out good internet for an entire year.