Day 80: Lots of Tape

Allen Cay, Exumas, Bahamas (anchored)

April 4, 2022

We use an igloo cooler to keep our beverages cold (as long as we can buy ice).  It’s on our stern so it’s in the sun all day long.  Today we decided to create an insulated cover for it. We have a roll of the silver bubble wrap stuff that’s often used in car windshield protectors that we use to cover our deck hatches.  It was the perfect material for the cooler cover.

We used white gorilla tape to adhere the pieces.  Working with that much shine was its own challenge – and if we ever have an emergency we’ll be able to message planes with the reflection off the cover. 

We jumped into the dinghy to check out all of the small cays around us.  They’re very rocky with mostly low plants and bushes.  We have heard the nocturnal Audubon shearwaters who nest in the holes in the rocks.

We (I) wanted to see if I could feed more birds on a different cay in this small area.  We also wanted to climb to the top of a hill to check out a ruined building, especially since there were concrete pavers leading right up to it.

Those sandy pavers were a problem coming down, though. John slipped but caught himself. I slipped and the ground caught me. We are very, very glad that the iguanas are not carnivores!

We have a lot of first aid supplies so once I cleaned off all of the blood and sand (I am tall enough to get my foot and shin in the sink, then I hoisted myself up to get my inner thigh clean) I was Neosporin-ed and bandaged up. We have cloth tape so I didn’t have to use gorilla tape.