Captains Log 05/06/07

Waiting on Weather in Rum Cay, Bahamas

The next morning I took all of my anger on the smaller inhabitants of the local reef SE of Sumner point. I got me a nice 3 lbs bar jack, which turned out to be quite tasty on the grill. I believe that is a change in fortunes. I am finally catching some kind of fish. I hope it goes better from here on out. There were few sharks circling the same reef along with me. I somehow convinced myself that I am higher on the food chain, so I took their lunch right in front of them, got it up on the dinghy almost instantly and got myself up as well. We'll go again the next day, but next time, for a different fish. That afternoon we visited Rum Cay the untouched jewel of Bahamas. And it really is. As they spelled it "unspoilt" jewel on the big sign at the government dock. The town was dead, appropriate for a Sunday. How is it that a town of not more that 100 people has 2 churches? Two different religions, says Crystal. 2 bars I understand, one marina ok, one grocery and one administrations building (more like a shed) I understand that as well, but two churches I didn't quite get. But never the less we'll spend few days in this wonderful community. The weather is still puzzling and nobody knows for sure when and if this bad storm system is supposed to visit our area. That is kind of important, because I cannot get into the marina and we have no protection from the S through NW winds. That is big opening. But all the forecasts keep insisting on N-NE-E 10 kts winds. So we'll see, we'll keep a wary eye on the weather and act appropriately. Meanwhile its reef time. Oh yea, and drinking piss warm sundowner(a drink at sunset) rum and coke.
The one thing I forgot to mention is that our watermaker is working flawlessly. I don't want to jinks it, but in these corners of the world, water is hard to come by. We are drinking ours and loving and absorbing every bit of the comfort that comes with it. The salinity went down to 500ppm from 700-800ppm. That mans I am drinking it. And it tastes great. Pure clean H2O.

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