June 15, 2000 -- Boredom Breeds Greetings

In the morning, we took a dinghy ride around the anchorage to see if we knew anyone. After having anchored close to each other, and even talked on the VHF once or twice, we finally met the folks on Rainbow's End. They happened to be out in their cockpit when we went by, so we stopped and talked with them for a bit. After we got back, we were hailed by Second Line on VHF. They invited us to stop by, so we planned to stop by on our way back from the store. Next, we went into town for a few groceries. After we called the cab, the folks on Britican came in to the dinghy dock. We introduced ourselves and chatted until our cab came. I think we spent longer waiting for cabs today than we did anything else! We were in the store for about 5 minutes, but waiting on cabs for almost 30! On the way back to the boat, we stopped and picked up our mail at the dock office. On the way back, we stopped and met the Reed & Mary Jane on Second Line. They told us some of their cruising stories of the Caribbean. It was fun! After we got back and went through mail, we had a snack. It was too late to have lunch. Around 5:30 PM, the breeze was dying, the humidity was climbing and we had had enough. We finally gave up and flipped on the AC. After things cooled off a little bit, we decided to do another tour of the anchorage to see who had shown up. Perhaps there were other boats that we knew here. We hopped in the dinghy, started to go and the key jammed in the start position. Mike acted quickly to remove the wire from the positive battery terminal which saved the dinghy starter, battery and wiring! After cussing for a few minutes, we decided to deal with the problem in the morning since it was getting dark