New Years Day - Junkanoo

Party at New Plymouth

Green Turtle Cay

Junkanoo

Over here in the islands they don't need any excuses for a party and Junkanoo is one of them.  They dress up in wild home made costumes and parade away.

Bluff House, White Sound, Green Turtle Cay

Bluff House, White Sound, Green Turtle Cay

Bluff House, White Sound, Green Turtle Cay

Standing on the roof to watch the parade

Teresa enjoying refreshments - Yea Right

Joan wondering who drank hers!

Who Let this guy in?

Dancing to the Music

Band getting fired up

What are you laughing at  Brian?

Rock the Crowd

12ft of water and it looks like glass

Happy New Years 2013

Party at Bluff House

Bluff House in Green Turtle Cay was having a New Years Bash and we attended with a bunch of other cruisers.  Bluff House gave free dockage for any boat that went to the party. Who are we to throw away free dockage, even if the dinner was outrageous.

 

Party on.

Table for a bunch of crazies.

Chris was in a party mood

Everyone was taking pictures of everyone else.  Who knows what stories were told.

Joan, Are you happy?

Find someone to pay the bill....

Still in Green Turtle Cay

Beaches are very sad.....

On the back side of Green Turtle Cay, Black Sound is a wonderful beach.

 

Chis and Dave from SV Felix the Cat

 Clear beautiful water and great for finding shells.

You can almost walk out to that little island about a quarter mile

Shoes? Who needs them?

Hey Joan, where you going?

Clear water.

Cruiser's Pot Luck Party

Cruiser's Party on Christmas Day

On Christmas Day, in  Green Turtle Cay, behind Brendal's Dive Shop, Brendal hosts a gathering of any all cruisers in the area for a LARGE pot luck. Everyone brings a favorite dish and then the pigs hit the tables to devour. Most of the time the dishes don't need to be washed since everyone scrapes the bottoms clean. To top things off, Brendal makes some killer rum punch that after about three of the them you can't feel your legs. REALLY GOOD STUFF.

 

People standing around for the bell to start eating.

 After that who can move...

Well, Well I Found George(aka ThatBoatGuy) in line feeding his face. George helped bring a catamaran over from the states and we were not sure if he would make to the trough in time.

It was a hard time finding our dingy to go back to the boat after all this....

Merry Christmas

Just in case we don't have internet for the next few days,  moving the boat today to a new area.

Merry Christmas 

&

Happy New Year

to all our family and friends..

Joan & Jim

Mr & Mrs Santa Claus Visit Us.

Wow would you look at that! Jim gets a kiss from Santa. I must have been a very good boy.

Sun down

Conch Contest

What do boaters do when they are bored? They dream up something to keep their minds active.

 

 What do you say we all get our conch out and see who can blow the longest and loudest to annoy anyone within earshot.....
So Annie, Ken and I hit the dock with Joan doing the count down for the setting of the Sun.

Not Yet the Sun is still up there....

GO!

Needless to say, bet you can't guess who won?  Me being the biggest blow hard and loudest...

Mangoes Marina

Mangoes Marina

Marsh Harbor, Bahamas

Last entry had us going into Mangoes Marina. It is a small marina tucked in between to larger marinas but it has big heart and wonderful staff.  This has to be one of our more favorite marinas we visit. They bend over backwards to help and provide great service.

Side note another boater next to us was going home for Christmas and lent us their folding bikes to use while they were gone.  Ride ON....

Rainbow off the back of the boat

 Being in the tropics you can count on a rain shower sometime during the day.

Marsh Harbor airport old terminal

New terminal

 Interesting story about the terminal and control tower at the airport. Seems they spent about twenty million putting in this terminal and is about a year behind schedule.  Then they discovered the new control tower has no power.  Guess they were planning to use flags to control the planes.

 Crazy things happen when you least expect it.

Joan and I were over on Pegasus with Nancy and Dean, late Sunday around 5p.  When down the dock come Pete, the bar tender at Mangoes. We find out his wife is part of the team putting on the Miss Abaco pageant and in need of some judges.  Two judges missed their flight out of Nassau. So we being the wonderful people we are, threw Nancy under the bus and volunteered her for the position.  Which entitled the rest of us to attend a black tie event for free, while others had to pay.  We had to be over there by 6:45 with a start time of 7:30. Of course, they didn't get things started until almost 9 and didn't finish until around 11.  We were also invited to the after show party for VIP's at Mangoes.  This was WAY pass my bedtime, spent a few minutes there then crashed in the bed around 12:30...

Joan and Jim clean up real nice. Black Tie? I don't own a tie

Nancy at the judges table.

The Winner

We put up our Christmas lights on the boat and finally got a picture.

Due to weather we plan on staying in the marina until Dec 23.  Weather is a big thing down here, everything you do is planned around it.  A big nasty cold front is due to hit here Friday into Saturday with winds up to 35kts.  Rather be tied to the dock than swinging on the anchor...

Besides we have bikes to venture around..