WILL BE "STRANDED" IN BIMINI

Yep, we will be here until probably Friday!! The weather out in the Gulf Stream is unbearable for our catamaran. So, we hang here at the Big Game Club Resort and Marina. It seems we have one last little holiday before arriving in Florida. We so do want to get home though. We will make the best of this. We do work on the boat in the mornings, ie: clean out the front hatches, mold growing there..... then have a lunch. We then walk into town to explore the small "stores". I know now from experience, when a tiny building says SuperMarket on it, don't get your hopes up. It is small with a few cans of stuff on the shelves. We did get some coconut bread at the bakery though, mmmmm ... better than the yellow house bakery in Staniel Cay. We sit and read around the pool in the afternoon..... very hard to take, but we are forced to, what else is there to do?? :-)

At the Big Game Club, Guy Harvey caught these in 1999.

We do have such high speed internet here that we listen to our news at home on the radio, the bad news of Ontario and then good music on our Majic100 Radio station. We are weening ourselves right into our civilization.

Next blog post, I will have some DID YOU KNOW.... things. I still want people to follow along, so I have to keep our lives interesting. Tomorrow we will walk to the Bimini Bay Resort, we can shop and eat a lunch at a restaurant there. This is a more expensive place to stay. Looks like they have a nice beach there. Walking and keeping in shape is important!!

The following is supposedly a documented conversation between the USS Lincoln and a Canadian "vessel"....
Canadian: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.
Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision.
Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the captain of a U.S. Navy ship. I say again, divert your course.
Canadians: No, I say again you divert your course.
Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that you change your course 15 degrees north, I say again, that's one five degrees north, or counter-measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.
Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.