We had a great day yesterday. Our new friends, Lorraine and Bob from "Scaramouche", a custom designed 58' Tayana, came to our boat for apple cinnamon pancakes (which they appropriately appreciated) at about 10. They drove a rental car to the dock and I picked them up by dinghy. (alone! I am getting much better at handling the dinghy and outboard and feel confident without Roger to save me if something goes wrong.)
Our friends from Maine, Sandy and Bill of "Lucille", another 43' Saga didn't receive all of our emails and so got to our boat closer to noon. We had more pancakes than we could handle. So, after hanging out for a couple of hours, Lorraine, Bob, Roger and I went in the rental car and toured some of the island.
It was another beautiful day with the breezes necessary so as not to be feeling the heat, and we stopped at three places. One is Grand Case, which is a beautiful bay more on the northern part of the island and then Anse Marcel, which is a really small bay on which the beautiful and elegant Radisson resort is located. We sat at the beach side restaurant there and enjoyed iced teas. We will sail there when we leave Marigot, about six miles, anchor in their bay, swim ashore with a credit card, and enjoy the restaurant -- without paying $560/day for their smallest room -- this makes Roger very happy.
We were chauffeured by our friends to Budget Marine where, at their advice, we made a significant purchase. We bought a new dinghy with a hard aluminum bottom, larger diameter hypalon tubes at the sides and a 9.8 HP outboard. We currently have a soft bottom dinghy and a 4 HP engine. The new items will make us much more self reliant and comfortable in the strong Caribbean Seas, and twice as fast. Down here the dinghy is your car and we use it A LOT! We will pick up the new dinghy on Monday and we're both very excited about using it. And, we definitely got a better deal down here than we would have back in the states.
Today is another great weather day. We'll be leaving the marina by foot and head into the main section of Marigot. We will climb the hill to see Fort Louis and the view from there. Then we'll head for an art gallery tour. We hope tonight we will get to see our friends, Bill & Sandy who couldn't come with us yesterday on the island tour.
I ate frogs legs last night at a little hole on the alley wall restaurant with Bob and Loraine. I've never enjoyed food as much! I had two left over and brought them back for the furry felines. Don't know if they enjoyed them as much as I did, but they ate most of it, garlic and all. Roger ate the biggest artichoke I've ever seen and then veal kidneys in mustard sauce. Not my favorite dish but he enjoyed thoroughly. I see no reason to go to another restaurant. I want to eat there every night!!!
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