Still sitting

We are still sitting and waiting. The winds are still up. It is all related to the cold nasty weather you are all having up north. Sunday seems to be our first break but things can change in the days preceeding  that. We have a retired weatherman from Toronto who does a weather update each morning and boats from all over the island chain call in with their location and weather conditions in their area. He looks ahead and studies trends and gives you the best weather window. We had a gathering at the Jambe De Bois last night with 22 of the Friends of Denis network. What a lot of fun. 

We are having lots of social gatherings and today is the First Ladies Lunch here in Rodney Bay. The lunch is at a nice restaurant where only the ladies gather and don't talk of amps or volts. It is a really nice gathering of like minded women. Yesterday we gathered and 12 of us got a bus into Casteries (the  capital city) to the Union Orchid Propagation Center. It was a short walk about a mile after the bus.The center was very interesting and full of many different varieties and colors of orchids in various stages of development. We stopped at a huge grocery store/ hardware store similar to Costco ( but no membership). The product selection was huge and almost all packaging too huge for two people on a small boat. 

The only large marine store here is Island Water World and they started a reward point system last spring. We got a 500.00 US cash voucher yesterday and purchased a Manson Supreme anchor. Free is good! Well we did spend quite a bit in order to qualify for the voucher. 

This is a view of the bay this morning after the first of many showers. The last picture is our rain catcher  with a garden hose attached the underside waiting for the next shower. Rainwater is great for laundry and a shower after a swim. Since Christmas Eve when the huge storm went through the marina has had drinking water in short supply. The Marnia slips have water but at the fuel dock they are unable to supply boats for fill up. We do not have a water maker and we were down to half of our last tank from Bequia so only about 15 gallons or so. Kind people on Aspen (at a Marnia slip) offered us water. Brian made three trips with three jerry cans and we have filled up all three tanks. You sure feel better when you know you have water. We had another first today too. A fish must have jumped out of the ocean and into our dinghy hoisted up on the side where Brian found him quite stiff this morning.