It was a nice quiet morning. I’m kind of sad that Marge isn’t going shelling with us we’d talked about it and I’d thought they were going to be here, but do understand. When the weather is right to leave, you have to leave… It is what it is… She hailed us to tell us they were getting set to weigh anchor. So we watched them head out. They’re heading northward to be in Eleuthera for the end of the month festival. I’m glad we got to run into each other again & hope if we don’t run into each other again in the islands that we’ll see each other in Michigan during Hurricane season. It sounded like she was going home to visit this summer.
I’m not sure if Lapidus is finished working on the boat yet or not but figured that they might want a break by 5pm & put a call out to them for Happy Hour on Kolibrie. The boat is still being worked on, but it sounds like they might take a break to go shelling and do happy hour. That’ll be fun!
Around 1:30pm Nancy, Jim, Beth, Jim, Wayne and I headed over to the sand bar to look for shells. Wow! It was quite a ride by dinghy – farther than we all thought. It’s quite an extensive sandbar and has to be a couple miles long! A long sinuous white island that breaks up the green water from the blue sky - it looks like a mirage in the distance. We all found some delightful shells and a ton of sand dollars. Nancy found a couple of sea biscuits and we all seemed to find milk conchs. Nancy’s was still occupied, so after observing it a bit, reaching out of its shell trying to escape, we put it back into the water. Half way through our shelling, a tour boat dropped off people to go shelling. I didn’t know that any of the tours did that. It was kind of neat to see, because this is a bit off the beaten track for the tour boats.
After going through all the shells that we found, Nancy busted out some delicious cookies to munch on before we headed back to the boats and the trek back to Little Farmers Cay. We never did see Lapidus and when we got back to Kolibrie, Paula was hailing us on the radio. They had someone show up that knew something about their engine. Engines always take precedence over shells and happy hour – to be sure! I just hope they’re able to get their engine working again! They’ve been here a while now waiting for parts.
Solitaire and MadCap came by for happy hour and we brought out the Marti’s sipping rum for everyone to try. It was nice having them aboard this evening and made a great end to another wonderful Bahamian day. Good weather, good shelling, good company!
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