The quiet, religious village here is especially sleepy this Easter weekend, with most places closed from the time I arrived through Easter Monday. I awoke early this morning and attended the sunrise service on the ocean side on the beach - spectacular! The familiar faces buzz around town in their electric golf carts, including Lola the bread lady. The weather couldn't be nicer - 73-75 degrees by day, 65 at night with sunny skies and mild breezes.
Mystique spent the winter at a stout mooring in the well-protected anchorage here in Man O War. I'm told it was the coldest, windiest, wettest winter in 40 years, so I'm glad we weren't trying to cruise this winter. The skiing was good at home but not great as we had less precipitation and a milder winter than usual. Because the native Loyalist population has several centuries of boatbuilding experience, the two marinas here are known to be the best place to get your boat work done in the Bahamas! So this has been a great layover spot for Mystique. At the moment I'm at the dock enjoying shore power and internet access.
Jan stayed behind in Frisco to help out with our church's Easter celebrations because she's co-chair of the worship committee. She will fly in with Sammy the cat this Wednesday. I'm really looking forward to her (Jan's ;-) arrival. Today is also my 'significant' Medicare inauguration birthday and it's a bummer celebrating without her. But I''m taking the message of rebirth to heart!! I am celebrating the gift of having each of you in my life, even though I'm by myself in this beautiful location by myself.
Our cruising plan is to enjoy this area for a bit before heading back south to Eleuthera where we'll meet up with Steve & Kari Cutbirth, our former Boulder neighbors. They'll be aboard for almost a week and will fly out of the nearest airport to where we are at the time. Jan and I will continue south to explore some of the islands surrounding George Town, Exuma. We hope to get to Cat Is., Long Island and several others before leaving the boat again in George Town. We're hoping that David and Kathryn, our GT friends who came to see us in Frisco this winter, will be able to meet up with us and sail home to GT aboard Mystique. We'll leave the boat and fly home somewhere around May 20-25 for the summer.
As always, please use the links at left to view more of our pics etc. Stay tuned for Jan's arrival.
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