Since our last communique, the next day since we had the
golf cart all day Sunday we did some further exploring of Green Turtle. The island isn’t that large but it still has
a lot of places to checkout from the bluff near the old Bluff House Restaurant overlooking
the Sea of Abacos toward the south and west, to the other side of the island on
the north looking out onto Coco Bay, to around the corner on the northeast side
looking out onto the Atlantic. Pretty
rough out there. More on that situation
later.
The roads here are semi-improved outside of New Plymouth where
they are concrete. Realize we are
talking the width of two (2) golf carts.
Outside of the town they are somewhat rough plus the speed of a golf
cart isn’t that fast. Fortunately
someone has marked the larger potholes so that you have time to either slow
down or avoid them. Otherwise it is like
riding a bar room bull, not that we have ever tried that. Oh, did I mention that you drive on the left
here?
Yesterday we made a command decision to stay put here for a while
longer. This was decided because the
wind will increase over the next few days from the north and east making a
passage out into the ocean somewhat dicey.
No sense in taking a chance and since we are not in a hurry we’ll stay
here. Time to wash some clothes and soak
up some sun.
Since we are on a mooring ball instead of at a dock we are
relearning to be frugal when it comes to water consumption. A tidbit for fellow Island Packet owners; on
our Island Packet 37 one (1) inch of depth in the water tank equals ten gallons
of water. We learned this when we had to
change the float on the water gage.
Electricity is another consideration. We don’t have a problem in this area since we
have a wind generator and a solar panel to keep our batteries charged and over
the years we have learned to live within the power budget our system is capable
of producing. Living of the grid has its
challenges but it can be accomplished.
We’ll try to embed a few photos this post to see how that
goes. We haven’t tried that.
And lastly we expanded our Overall Trip Map to include our
entire 2016 journey from our departure at Cambridge, MD up through Gaithersburg,
MD to visit our son and daughter-in-law Aaron & Jordan, down to Charleston for
all our check-ups, and then down to Ft. Pierce via auto then our aboard time getting over to here.
Many thanks to Hayden Cochran for his help fixing the coding
for this map as well as he and Radeen’s inspiration for this overall blog. Theirs at islandspirit35blogspot.com is
awesome. They are dedicated cruisers and
have provided a tremendous amount of support in a variety of ways to the
overall Island Packet community.
Gerry & Larry
s/v Galileo
