Mindy & Carl's Visit

They hated to leave, but the real world was calling them back.  We had a great time and got them to places they didn't get to see last trip.  A week seems like a long time, but it passes by pretty fast!

Mindy & Carl flew in early Saturday morning of the Barefoot Man Weekend.  We took a long walk on the 'world famous' Treasure Cay beach, got them a frozen 'beverage' and then hotfooted it over to Guana Cay to see if we could shoehorn our way into the anchorage.  It wasn't soooo bad................ a number of boats left before we got there.  I guess they'd had enough barefootin'.  There were only about 35 - 40 boats left in the anchorage.  We had a date with 'The Barefoot Man' at 6:30 for dinner, drinkin' & dancin' (@ Nipper's) - which we did plenty of!!! 

Dancin' to Sea -n- B band



Nipper's

 A couple of posts ago I told you about the walk to Nipper's.  We walk everywhere we go down here, at least once we take a ride in the dinghy to shore, which can be quite a ways sometimes............. so we don't think too much about how far things are, within reason.  We walk to the grocery store and lug our groceries back the same way.  It's just part of the cruising life.  So, Mindy & Carl get out of the dinghy at Guana and we start the trip to Nipper's from there.  We got about half way to Nipper's and we started hearing commentary like 'how much farther is it??', 'are we almost there??'.  We did make it and we didn't have to drag them, at least not too far.  But, they were parched when we got there!!!  Had a great meal, and the concert was great!  The Saturday night concert is not a free one like Friday's concert, so not near as many people.  I think Mindy & Carl felt it was worth the trip to see this.  Went back in again on Sunday to do an afternoon of Grabber's and Nipper's.  Brown Tip was at Grabber's doing Rake & Scrape and The Sea n B band was at Nipper's.

Another gathering w/ friends from s/v 'Gail Force' and s/v 'Sojourner'

Let's see...................where did we go next?  Hopetown, Tahiti Beach, Lubbers Quarters and Man o War.

@ Hopetown

Relaxing & rehydrating @ Abaco Inn after a long walk on the beach

Man O War path

Carl got in quite a bit of fishing while he was here, but the only thing big enough to keep was a Cero Mackerel, which we had for dinner along with the Mahi Mahi that I caught on the way across the gulf stream and had been saving in the freezer.  The fish was excellent!!!!  I want more!  Carl caught numerous barracudas, but we weren't feeling that daring, even though they were small.

Carl's Cero Mackerel - we got two good sized filets from it!

We did some beach walking, although didn't find many shells or very much sea glass.  Mindy decided she could relax quite well in the hammock we have on the front of the boat.

Curly Tail Lizard -- they are everywhere!!!!!

Does she look relaxed?

And then it was time to go into the dreaded Marsh Harbour to meet their taxi to the airport.

Last night in the Abacos @ Curly Tails, appropriately named for the curly tail lizards that are everywhere!

Just after sunset in Marsh Harbour