Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Comings & Goings

With so many visitors to Hope Town, our marina, boatyard, and onsite liquor store have really been stocking up with items. Yesterday, when the freight boat arrived, they delivered the biggest order we have ever seen.

Both sides of the dock building were stacked with provisions and even a brand new outboard. I don't know how they reached the top of the pallet load of items on the left.

Then later it was time to bring this inflatable back to Marsh Harbour. I'm glad the worker didn't ride in the boat the whole way onto the freight boat. We really had to wonder why the boat owner didn't just wait until calm weather and bring it over himself.


This weekend we had an opportunity to buy a new queen size mattress from a private person who buys them from Nassau periodically. We had to pick it up in Marsh Harbour on Sunday, but the tide happened to be low, which made it a bit difficult to get it into Walkabout, especially since I'm still not much help when it comes to moving things like that. The timing worked out well though, when PJ, who was working the fuel dock in the morning, missed the ferry back to MH and we said we would take him there. He jumped at the chance to get back and enthusiastically volunteered to help with the mattress. When we got to the very high public dock (with no ladders), he jumped out of the boat, grabbed the mattress out of the seller's truck and carried it all by himself on his head back to the boat! I wish I could have grabbed my camera, but I was keeping the boat off the dock. Then Dave and PJ had to lay down on the mattress together to test it before PJ jumped all the way down in the boat and secured it between the two front seats. It was all really quite funny. We made it back to Hope Town and when we got here, two friends were arriving and helped get it back up our dock and those 17 stairs to our apartment.

What a challenge...I just hope that we never have to replace the refrigerator!

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