November 25, 2011

We are still at the marina, but we are going to try to leave tomorrow. It might be bumpy, but we are ready to move. Even though the marina is nice, it was not our Bahamas plan.
Closer to our Bahamas plan, we had a coconut feast today. Deason and two kids (the family happens to be from Mass, and keep their boat in Hyannis....small world) from a boat nearby gathered quite a few coconuts. We extracted the milk by using a screw driver and hammer, and then whacked at the thing with the hammer until we could peel it and get at the nut for the meat. It is much harder than it looks, but well worth it. Especially, because we know from watching "Castaway" that we can survive on coconuts, and fish if we can catch some. Hopefully, it won't come to that, but if Tom Hanks could do it so could we!
After dinner, we bought some fresh baked bread from a local woman who had come around with a cart. I won't mention how much I paid for the bread, but it was still warm and smelled so good that I probably would have paid more than I did.