March 13, 2014
Time to take Tim and Blenda to
the airport. We left Great St. James
Island this morning and made the two hour trip to St. Thomas with no problems. We enjoyed fresh fruit and hot apple cinnamon
muffins on deck. We saw the cruise ships
coming into dock and lots of ferry boats loaded with people going to work. We anchored closed to the airport – I mean
CLOSE. We can now sit and watch planes
take off and land and most likely see the smile on the faces of those landing
at St. Thomas. We took D-Time to shore
and Tim and Blenda were able to walk about 5 minutes and they were at the
checkin desk at Delta. Nice.
We had a bunch of laundry to do,
more than our one little machine could handle so we loaded up our dirty clothes
in our backpacks today and set off to find a laundromat. $7.75 a load to wash clothes – I know it has
been a long time since I’ve been to a laundromat, but I don’t remember it costing
that much to wash a load of clothes. After
the fun wash and fold experience, we found some lunch (Daniel a road side
vendor and me a Chinese restaurant). We
met in the middle and scarfed it down.
Off to the grocery store for me.
Daniel was the “anchor” – he stayed with all of the clothes while I
grabbed a few items. We caught an
expensive cab ride back to D-Time and then proceeded to load D-Time with our
freshly clean clothes and groceries. The
tide must have been coming in as we were trying to get loaded because we came
very close to getting all of those fresh clothes soaking wet. We set the backpacks in the bottom of D-Time
to get it pushed out in the water from shore but the waves were breaking over
D-Time and filling the boat with water. We
couldn’t snatch those clean clothes up fast enough. In the
end, the groceries got wet, but we guarded those clean clothes like gold.
The rest of the afternoon was spent cleaning and
doing some boat maintenance. We enjoyed
the anchorage because it was so close to the airport and we enjoyed watching
the planes land and take off. Even after
dark, it was pretty to see. The mountain
side in St. Thomas, after dark, lit up with thousands of little lights was a
sight to see.
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