The Real Bahamas....Been There and Now Done That!

OMG! It's Sunday afternoon and we just arrived at Green Turtle Cay (60 miles from Grand Cay) and are now tied up to the dock and back in the 21st century! The crossing from the West End to Grand Cay was fairly uneventful. It was indeed very shallow but we made it fine. We did go into Rosie's Place (the marina) on Grand Cay at low tide and it was a little spooky. We draw about 3 1/2 feet and we saw 4 feet a couple of times. O.K.....so we arrive at Rosie's Place, get tied up to the dock and WOW.....there is wireless internet on the dock!!!! Well, that lasted about 2 hours and that was the end of it. When we would ask about when it would be back up and running we would hear, "Maybe tomorrow...." That is just the Bahamas way....they couldn't care less whether we can e-mail our loved ones or post to our blogs. I think they basically think it is all foolish.....some pretty smart people, perhaps. Now, the last day we were fishing before we left the West End we went through our little routine of dumping the holding tank offshore before coming back to the marina like good cruisers. The gauge never went down so we were concerned but didn't worry because Old Bahama Bay had a marine pumpout and we would just have them pump it out to confirm what we believed about the gauge....that it was stuck. On our way out on Friday we did have them check and low and behold.....nothing pumped so decided that yes, it was just a faulty gauge . Well....NO that wasn't the problem....obviously their pumpout wasn't working! The gauge kept going up until it showed "full"!!!!! Yikes!!!! How can we cruise the Bahamas and not be able to use the head (strange name for toilet...huh...)? The only bathroom at Rosie's was in the bar (which of course opened at 7:00 a.m. so that wasn't a problem)! No toilet paper and the seat in the ladies toilet was actually broken off and half laying in the floor (not that I would have sat on it anyway)!!!!! Without going into much more detail about the head dilemma......my Mother's Day present from ACTM was he got up early and tore the whole thing apart and it is now working again!!!!! Phew....... The fishing was an unbelievable experience but I am going to let ACTM elaborate on that.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there!!!!

ACJM