George Town - More Karaoke

The George Town cruising season is definitely winding down. When we got here there were some 200 boats in the harbor and now a few weeks later that number has been reduced to maybe 100. People are slowly starting to migrate north. We'll be heading out of here soon, either tomorrow or Friday depending on wind direction. Yesterday morning we got our laundry done, filled up the dinghy with gasoline, traded books at the library and basically just made as many preparations for moving on as we could. We are now ready to go north to Cat Island when the wind clocks around to the east. Then we spent a nice afternoon with the crew from "Paragon". Over blender drinks, we talked about cruising up in the Chesapeake (which they have done) and NYC and Martha's Vineyard (which we have done). It was good because both of us got the scoop about places we'd never been to but want to visit.

After a long day we turned in kind of early, but were kept awake by a howling dog on a nearby boat and howling karaoke-ers at one of the waterfront bars. It's amazing how karaoke is the best thing ever when you're the one that is tipsy and belting out tunes into the microphone. But the tables are turned when you are trying to sleep and 20 drunk Americans are tunelessly singing (rather, shouting) the lyrics to Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places". We had a choice: close the hatches and suffer the heat or leave the hatches open and face the music. So we suffered with the windows open, trying by sheer force of will to make them stop singing, stop singing, stop SINGING! They finally stopped sometime between 11 and midnight and we thankfully turned in. We may move the boat back across the harbor to Stocking Island today to move away from the noise and near-constant powerboat wakes here on the George Town side.