Lovely George Town

Here are two views of the George Town/Elizabeth Harbor taken from the top of the largest hill upon which there is a huge monument to help sailors find the entrance. The harbor is actually just the space between Great Exuma and Stocking Island. It provides a lot of protection and a lot of activity. We have made SO MANY wonderful new friends! There is a couple from Minnesota who sailed here in their beautiful big Hans Christian - about 40-foot monohull. Their names are Klaus and Rachel. She's a massage therapist and reikki practitioner with a large holistic practice, and he just retired as an electrical plant supervisor. Wayne's out snorkeling with them now, as I use this brief time with a good connection to post this blog post up with a couple of photos. Klaus is a wonderful, outgoing gentleman with an endless sense of humor, a red beard, freckles, and a triangular tuft of hair crowning his head. He is very happy-go-lucky and he and Wayne are having a great time playing beach volley ball. Rachel is very tall, imposing, and intense. She is definitely the driver of the team. She was absolutely determined to sail all the way to the Maritimes, and so instead of taking the "easy" way like we did through the Erie Canal, they did the Welland and sailed all the way up and out. Wow! We enjoyed a lovely happy hour with them a couple of days ago and marveled at all the teak, the stained glass windows, and general "posh" down-below of their boat. In the meantime, we are dreaming about the possibility of trading up to a 40-foot trimaran. Not at all the same kind of boat, but more to our liking - a little funky but fast. We met another lovely couple in Norman's Cay - Fran and Mort aboard their 34-foot trimaran Alato. We have been thinking about it since, and yesterday they arrived in George Town! They lent us a book called "The Case for the Cruising Trimaran" and I think Wayne is hooked. Sounds great to me, now just how do we afford this? It pays to dream, and then act upon the dream, otherwise it may never happen. SO....we are slowly making inquiries. Another lovey couple we have met recently - Oliver and Pam from Toronto - invited us to stop by their 40-foot Beneteau last night (Dajarlo). Again we were impressed with the boat, but a monohull of that size is big and heavy with a 6-foot draft while a trimaran has daggerboards which can be lifted to create a 2.9 foot draft and can sneak into places no monohull could dream of. Pam and Oliver are just about the social center of George Town, and the nicest folks you could ever meet. Olli has a windsurfboard, mast and sail and told us we could use it any time. Wow, that really got us going, so tomorrow we hope to windsurf across the bay. What a life!