We hope everyone successfully rang in the new year and had a speedy recovery.
We spent New Year’s Eve day at the pool with our crossing friends, Terry and
Peggy from Attitude, and Robert and Carolyn of Gypsy Common. The pool is at
their marina, the Abaco Beach Resort and Boat Harbor Marina. We drank rum and
coke, compliments of Peggy, ate conch fritters and fresh fish fingers (bet you
didn’t know fish had fingers), swam in the pool and soaked up all the Bahamian
sun we could take. It was a beautiful 78 degrees!!! Read it and weep, you
northerners. After all that fun, Robert and Carolyn insisted that we stay for
dinner, always delicious from Carolyn’s galley. Robert shared his great Cuban
Rum and Lisa discovered her new fondness… Banana Rum.
We toasted an early New Year with champagne and then borrowed a flashlight for
the walk across town and dinghy ride back to our boat. On our walk we were
drawn into the New Year fray by all the reggae sounds spilling into the streets
from the harbourfront dining and drinking establishments. Our energy level
pumped up by the beat of the live music, we had a second wind! After a quick
stop at Lucky Peek to freshen up we loaded back in the dinghy and headed to the
Jib Room at Marsh Harbor Marina (400 yards from where we are anchored). We
danced to the heavy reggae beat and consumed their signature beverage, the
Bilge Burner. It was at that moment, we felt that all the preparations and
hard work to get here had paid off and we were truly passing into a new phace
of our travels with the new year. Oh, and Lisa danced to enthusiastically that
she sprained a toe!
We made it back to the boat some time after midnight and had an extremely lazy
New Years Day of reading, relaxing, and recuperating. Now we are living the
life! And it’s great so far!
