Elizabeth Harbor, Georgetown Island

We left Farmers Cay by 7:15AM and had a beautiful day motor sailing south to Georgetown. We had to zig-zag our way into the harbor around reefs & sand bars but made it safely thanks to our Explorer charts, which everyone uses as a bible. Our anchor is down in 8' of water with sand under. Great holding. We have seen almost every boat we met in Farmers Cay. when the weather turns good everyone moves. Our friends from Persephone, Dave and Trudie, are nearby so it was nice to see them again. We left them in the ICW at St Augustine, FL in December. Today we spent the morning in the town getting groceries and checking the emails. The Exuma Market has free wi-fi for cruisers at their outdoor picnic tables and also free water at their dingy dock. We had a nice lunch and are now awaiting the shipment of fresh produce, fruit, and milk to clear customs and get into the store. The mail boat only arrives Tuesdays once a week so everyone is h ere waiting also!! Tuesdays will be our laundry and shopping day. We plan to hang here for about 3-4 weeks and then start heading North again. It's like adult camp. On one side of the harbor are dozens of anchored boats and a few organize all kinds of activities. We have the book to study for our beginning ham license and there is a meeting on the beach Wed. for those interested in taking the test the end of Feb. We have a cruiser coming over this afternoon to help Peter troubleshoot the wind generator which is not working. Every morning at 8AM you go onto VHF 72 to listen to the days events. Even the local businesses get their turn to advertise their business. Hilarious. Crossing the harbor to the town is at least a mile for us and today it was real choppy so we got a little wet. We won't be blogging every day---only when we get into town. So maybe once or twice a week. But we will let you know what's going on and send pics when we can download.

By the way, we bought an unlocked phone with a local sim card so we can be reached for emergencies since we won't have daily Internet service. I don't know what you dial for the Bahamas but our local number is 242-524-7628. We keep it turned on all the time because we can't find a message feature on it. So if anyone really needs to talk to us then call. We have to top up the credit on the phone every now and again.