Friday, October 14th, 2011, Mill Creek

  Richard offered to take us shopping.  We all jumped into the dinghy….well, after putting the motor onto the dinghy, which involves lifting it off the bracket on the boat using the new motor lift, easing it down to the bouncing dinghy onto the bracket on its stern, getting life jackets, motoring over to Blue Planet to pick up Geoff and Katja, then motoring to Kilissa’s dock.  It was a morning of needed grocery shopping, internet for Geoff, and hardware for Ken and Geoff.

  Later Ken and Geoff went with Richard in Kilissa to get fuel.  Happy hour was at 5pm at Richard and Carole’s house since they hadn’t moved onto their boat yet.  Peter, formerly of Osprey, who we met in Green Turtle, joined us.  It was fun reliving old times.  And the story of Katja and Geoff meeting us in Staniel Kay was retold, how communication is iffy and I’d misunderstood they were to stay on our boat the first 2 nights.  We were in the west anchorage in Exuma Park and couldn’t leave due to the winds.  Of course all this was announced over the VHF and everyone knew that Katja and Geoff were stranded in Staniel Kay.  They didn’t suffer, tho, finding a nice bungalow on the beach.