Karen and Duane on SV Sojourn joined us on a trip into Duncan Town by dinghy. Our first stop was to give Maxine a gift of a new Electric Frying Pan and to do some shopping in her store.
Maxine, me and Karen
Maxine has had a new sign put up on her store, as new Cruisers never know where to find her
Duane waiting outside for us girls to get our shopping done. I thought it a hoot that Maxine put chairs outside for Cruisers (men) to sit and rest whilst the women shop
Sasha a local Fisherman kindly gifted us with some Grouper Fillets, as we’d not yet caught any fish, and I’d asked Maxine to relay to the fishermen to stop by Meshugga if they’d caught fish that we could buy.
An obligatory walk around the village to see what has changed and possibly find one of the bars open for a welcoming cold Kalik
Some houses are still in ruin from Hurricane Irma 2017
Others are fully renovated or rebuilt
The Church is fully repaired
This is one of the two Bird Houses in Duncan Town. This one looks like it needs some repair
Goats, Houts and Locals
Overlooking the Salt Pans, which I understand they started reworking last year
We went to the Bone Fishing Lodge, hoping to find them open but no luck, locked, but through the windows looks like they are in business
Nicholas inspecting one of the Bone Fishing Boats
Jenny pinching flowers
Back to the Jetty, I’d telephoned Myron to tell him that we’d arrived and he met us at the jetty. We brought him 2 x 50 pound bags of Bird Seed. Myron raises Racing and Fancy pigeons which he sells mainly to Nassau, and we’d met him last year when we had a couple of Racing Pigeons stop to rest on Meshugga and refuse to leave. After a week of bird poop in our cockpit, I reached out to find someone (Myron) who could come and catch the bird and take care of it.
Catching up with Myron. In the background the building being build is the new Clinic.
After a couple of hours of shopping, walking around the village, we were happy to see the Ponderosa Tavern Bar was open and Ty (Maxine’s son), served us with cold Kalik and other beers.
Back to the dinghy a fishing boat had come in with a huge load of Lobster. All the tails had been taken off, and apparently these are sold to Nassau, whilst the head go to the locals who strip out the meat from the head, legs and feelers
Back aboard our dinghy going thru the channel from Duncan Town to sea and onto Hog Cay, about a 2 mile journey. Me Duane, Nicholas, Jenny and Karen
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