March 10, 2011
We decided to head out early to spear outside in “the Bight” and wait till later to run the generator. We spent the morning moving from one small patch of reef to the next. We had a successful outing with 3 small lobster, 13 Lionfish and 3 large conchs in our buckets before returning to the boat at 11:30. The Lionfish are plentiful and we do our best to help irradiate this invasive fish. We also get some good underwater pictures on the shallow reef.
Yellow Stingray
Scrawled Cowfish - look closely and you can see his horns
Queen Angelfishes
By the look on the captains face you can tell that cleaning the conch is the least favourite part. The conch (animal) is in his right hand and turned out to be great conch fritters.
After lunch we head back to the school to drop off the rest of the school supplies and pick up our cart. Natasha arranges for her husband to drop us off at the Shopping Plaza just north of town on his way home to drop off the children. He is a real estate developer and built the plaza. He tells us to let the cashier know when we are done and she will arrange to have someone drive us back to the dock. This is the most impressive grocery store we have seen since leaving Florida. We stopped at the liquor store to pick up a case of rum which was $60 for a case of 12 one litre bottles! We got 10% off for a case but he only had eight bottles in stock so we filled the case with another brand. He said he would get more next week. There was no stock in the back, what they had on the shelf was what was available. Sure enough we got a drive back to the dock with someone who was headed to the airport, even though I did point out that the airport was in the opposite directions to which she responded “no problem, my pleasure”.
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