Day 6 - By 1am on Nov. 22nd, we were securely anchored in St. George’s Harbor in Bermuda. We slept in late that morning and used the rotting bananas to make pancakes. After breakfast, we launched the dinghy and headed to town for our first drinks in 5 days (such hardships, I know)! Enjoyed watching the World Cup and drinking Rum Swizzles at White Horse Pub and later in the day, eating the veggie curry & octopus at The Wharf.
Day 7 - Our weather router said we had a window to leave that afternoon. We went to provision and then joined Chris & Kelly (from Fayaway) for fish sandwiches (served on raisin bread… yum)! We were waiting for a custom report from the weather router before making specific departure plans but when it didn’t come by 5pm when Customs closes for departures, we decided to have dinner on board. Joe made some excellent sausage w/ grits & broccoli. It was great to have the help with cooking especially from such a creative chef! Anyway, after dinner we finally got an email from our weather guy that said we should leave by sundown, no later! Unfortunately, that was a few hours ago.
Day 8 - Thanksgiving Day! We slept late, showered, swam, walked around St. George’s, saw the oldest church in the hemisphere, hiked to Gates Fort and had another great lunch on shore at Wahoo. Later that evening, we had Skype calls with family and turkey burgers w/ cranberries and sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner.
Day 9 - Joe made his second ‘special’ breakfast comprised of every leftover in the refrigerator including onions, rice, chicken, sausage, peppers, cheese, mushrooms, etc. After filling our tummies, we set out for a hike to Tobacco Bay, a beautiful swimming hole unfortunately with a bar on premises. We spent the entire afternoon into the evening supporting the local bar tender and creating what some remember as “Tobacco Bay night” (others don’t remember it at all)!!
Day 10 - We recovered from Day 9!
Day 11 - The breeze is filling in, the Optis are out to race and it looks like we will have a weather window tomorrow so we had one final on shore dinner with Chris & Kelly as well as the good folks from Carlina, who turned out to be from the vessel we called ‘the stalker boat’ on the Chesapeake Bay! Sounds like we’ll all be heading off early tomorrow.
To be continued…
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