George Town - Great Saturday

We woke up early this morning and finally the wind had decreased to a light breeze and the skies were clear! So we moved Solstice across the harbor so that we could be closer to town. We are now only a short dinghy trip away from town as opposed to where we were over at Stocking Island which was a mile away. At 8:30 am we headed into town to find out the status on the outboard propeller. Lo and behold, it had arrived! An Easter miracle. So now we are dinghy-enabled and are clear to make the multiple back-and-forth dinghy trips required to provision and fuel up. So we walked directly over to Exuma Markets to pick up more groceries and discovered that our mail had also arrived! Yay! Thanks to those of you who sent letters, it is always appreciated to get something other than bills in our mail packages! We picked up a few things at the market, the most important of which was Easter candy for tomorrow. I use the term "Easter candy" very loosely here, since really we only picked up: a Nestle Crunch, a Hershey bar, and a bag of peanut M&Ms. Chocolate doesn't fare well on import (tends to melt) so most stores don't stock a big variety, and certainly they don't stock large bags of it, let alone anything with Easter-specific wrappers. I feel for the poor Bahamian children whose Easter baskets contain only Skittles, Starbursts, and Payday bars. There wasn't a Cadbury egg in the entire store and we didn't see any jellybeans, either. Perhaps I'll get creative and try to carve the two candy bars into bunny shapes...

Speaking of children, earlier this week we saw a mother and baby dolphin frolicking in the waves that were generated by the windy weather. We have never seen such a small dolphin, he was only a couple feet long and couldn't have been very old. They played around our boat for an hour or so, and the little one came right up to the side and tried to swim under our boat but his mom didn't want him to get so close and she herded him further away. Of course just as they started swimming away, we thought to get out the camera. So we took several photos of two tiny nondescript blotches that you can't even tell apart from the waves. Hopefully we'll see them again so we can get some postable photos.