Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island

We left Great Guana Cay and had a fabulous sail across the turquoise waters of the Sea of Abaco. Wind was about 10 kts on the beam.

 

In the early afternoon we motored into Marsh Harbour and dropped anchor in about 7 ft of water.

Early the next morning we headed to the dinghy dock with a long “to do” list.

 

We had a part go bad on our propane system so we went to the hardware store…no luck there. We went to the Corner Value store and checked there…no luck, but did buy a part that we could use to bypass the broken piece. And we left our propane tank to be filled. We stopped by the Marine store…no luck there.

 

 

Next we walked to the other end of town to see if the local Moorings charter base might have an extra part. On the way, we found a little restaurant and had breakfast. Turns out they had just opened after moving here from Man-of-War Cay after selling the Dock & Dine restaurant there.

 

The Moorings did have the part, but only one and they wouldn’t let it go since they might need it for one of the charter boats. We were told about another, larger, hardware store so walked back through town…no luck there either. That put us close to the BaTelCo store so we went there to buy a sim card and some airtime for our local phone.

 

Then it was off to the biggest grocery store in the Bahamas – Maxwells. It is large and nice…very much like the stores in the States. Mostly we went to see it but did buy some lettuce and fresh fruit.

 

We found a jeweler down past the marinas that fixed Greg’s glasses where the little screw that holds the arm and lens had come out. She put it all back together with a tiny piece of gold wire at no charge , because she didn’t have any of the tine screws . We were very thankful for her willingness to fix them until we can get to an eyeglass place.

 

Then it was back to Corner Value to pick up our now full propane bottle and walk back to the dinghy.

 

I think we saw all of Marsh Harbor in one day by walking from one end to the other and back again!! We got our exercise too!

 

When we got back to the boat, Greg installed the bypass coupling in the propane line. Now we have to turn it on and off manually at the tank. Not a big deal. Such is cruising!

 

 

 He quieted the sea with His Power