Possibly Back On Line

Helloooo again. Once more I've let things slide....the internet thingy that we got from BTC which is the old Batelco only worked for standard what's names and the gadget that's s'posed to run the Ipad didn't like Skypy stuff and it was also hard to coordinate shore time for laptop wifi and as the Ipad would not allow me to blog on it( in the manner to which I'd become accustomed )
it all got hard...specially when some geek at blogger decided to change things again....I could go on...but......fortunately we met a 15 year old on an Aussie/English catamaran and he pointed out that one can use the Ipad as a personal hotspot and now we have internet on board. Fantastic. I can't praise the amazing advances in technology enough........OK...having said that I will bring you up to date.

Here's Jabiru on a mooring ball in Hatchet Bay on the west coast of Eleuthera. Eleuthera is actually a Greek word meaning Freedom. We got here about 12th of February and havn't moved since. Hatchet Bay was a salt pond with a narrow strip of cliffs separating it from the sound ,or Caribbean side as real estate people call it, so back whenever they blew a hole in the cliffs and created an opening which of course turned the pond into a bay. Great protection from the weekly cold fronts that our Canadian friends send down all winter.

                                     Here's a lovely old vessel leaving through the cut.

Our friend Bill,who we met back home in Oriental, had suggested we have a look at Eleuthera as it's a cool island.....yes....and there are a lot of expat musicians here who play a lot round the bars..yes. Bill's been building a house here during the winter months so we came ,we saw and havn't pulled a sail up for 2 months.
Here's Bill's house.

And this is Bill and his roof gang celebrating getting the roof on and the walls up to lock up stage
                                                      ready to finish off next year.

Meanwhile,back on da boat. As soon as we got here we drove about 20 miles south to the lovely settlement of Governors Harbour ,which is the capitol, and got our sim card for the Ipad. The first email that popped up was great news from my youngest daughter Lainie who had just gone and " eloped " . So now we have a new son in law ,Jarrod (,called Jazz by his lovely wife ) and we shall look forward to meeting him one of these days.He's a cop so my little girl's in good hands! The two of them haven't stopped smiling for months.

So to finish this li'l old post here's the delightful Governors Harbour.

New post with what we've been doing here...coming up.