Even though I had originally planned to be back in Georgetown by my birthday (which conveniently coincides with St Patricks day), we ended up staying here in Long Island in order to hang out with Jess, Matt, and his parents while checking out different parts of the island in their rental car. We had an awesome birthday dinner at Matt's parents' room at Long Island Breeze and the next few days we spent driving around and slaying some lobster.
I finally speared a couple of these spiny creatures and along with the ones Matt caught, we had way more lobster than we could eat for dinner! I also managed to spear a snapper, which we haven't yet eaten.
Yesterday, we had a small issue with our engine's throttle cable, but fortunately, after a long day of tinkering with it, we managed to get a local mechanic to rig a fix in place... Good thing it was a totally calm day to do this, on any other day, removing that engine would be nearly impossible in any kind of chop.
Last night was still dead calm, so I decided to sleep in the fresh air of the cockpit, only to be woken up at around 4:00AM due to the bouncing of the boat in the chop of a new west breeze. I hesitated for a few minutes but then decided to reanchor elsewhere, this would have been nearly impossible if the engine hadn't been fixed! After a 45 minute motor accross the pitch black night of the harbor, I set the anchor in the calm waters behind Indian Hole Point. After that, we had some great sleep which would had eluded us at the previous location.
Our Bahamas visas will expire soon so we will be extending them in Georgetown in order to be "legal" during our trip back to Miami.
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