We feel like we’re on vacation here at Emerald Bay. The marina isn’t quite finished, but it is a beautiful resort. We’ve had l-o-n-g hot showers for the first time in two months, enjoyed the freshwater pool and have clean laundry. Life is good!
Yesterday we motored up the 12 miles from Georgetown under nice conditions. The only trouble underway was the autopilot stopped working. Another item added to the list to troubleshoot. Disappointing after only nine months. It is an intermittent problem, probably a poor connection somewhere. We were greeted at the marina by a dockhand that took care of all our lines, even coiling them on the floating dock. We are one of the little boats here. Kahaki Blue is the biggest yacht here, rumored to be owned by Tommy Hilfiger.
Four other boats with kids are here, so the pool was full of frolicking youngsters yesterday. There is a beautiful view of the beach and bay from the pool. Floating in cool fresh water watching the boats sail by in the sound is not a bad way to relax. We were really looking forward to a wi-fi connection here, but the entire island was without internet as something happened to a Batelco tower.
Although the laundry is free, there are only three washers. Beth really wanted to get the laundry done, so waited in line and stayed up until 1:30 getting it all clean. At least the wi-fi came back up so she caught up on email.
Today the kids came over in the morning and played on Intuition. Noah went off shopping with the crew from Snow Day and had lunch on their boat. It really is nice having other kid boats around.
In the afternoon I was getting ready to rebuild the pump on the head, but the shore side facilities went out here and we didn’t want to do it without a back-up. Brett on Grace invited me to go snorkling and it didn’t take but a second to abandon the head project.
We found some interesting spots with lots of Elkhorn coral. I finally speared my first fish after Brett showed me the technique. You have to really stretch the band on the pole spear to get enough velocity underwater. I wasn’t using enough tension in my earlier attempts. We had fresh fish for dinner!
The wind is supposed to pick-up starting tonight. We are planning to stay here for another three or four days to catch up on some boat projects and wait for calmer conditions.