Day 2 in Black Point was laundry day. We lounged around the boat until 9:30, and dingyed to the laundry, which has its own dingy dock. The day before, some people we met from Maine had arrived at 9 am to find the place mobbed. When we check it out yesterday at around noon, there was no one there. When we reached the laundry, Dennis and Mary were there and two other people. We had no problem getting a washer for our single load. We met cruisers from the Annapolis area who moor their boat near the Gemini factory. They have a 38 foot Sabre and we exchanged some boat update stories.
If you had this view from your laundry, we would probably compete for who would do the clothes.
After laundry, we returned to the boat and did some rearranging now that we do have provisions store everywhere. We are learning what we need and can do without for our next adventure, and Beth is making detailed recordings. After lunch, we dingyed to the dock, choosing a new ladder, and walked to the beach which was about a half a mile from the cliffs we surveyed yesterday. It was a small beach, rock lined like most we have encountered. We did not find many shells, but found several pieces of broken coral in some of the pools in the rocks. After wandering across the rocks, I spotted several round black and pinkish round orbs in amongst the rocks, sea urchins. If you step on one, you will be in for a visit to the clinic to have the spines extracted and a heavy dose of antibiotics.
Wandering back to the dock, we ran into the couple from Maine, Jim and Ruth, and asked where their next port of call would be. They are going to Little Farmers Cay, which is the site of the 5 F's festival this weekend. We are heading there tomorrow, and provided we can find a decent anchorage will stay both Friday and Saturday. Dinner is soy burgers and proceeded by some of my homemade salsa.
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