I’m drinking the coffee I purchased at Domain Vanibel last week now, as my supplies from Antigua are exhausted. The coffee is only 20% from Guadeloupe and the rest from South America, but the mix is interesting and taste is mellow with a hint of bitterness. Overall a well-roasted and balanced bean that makes a good morning coffee. It is the beginning of another day in paradise.
I’m now on my second cup and it is late morning. I started a lengthy running job and am looking at my galley with the intent of making some eggs and toasted baguette and washing up from last night while the program runs.
I did the washing up, but not the breakfast. One of the advantages of having a watermaker aboard is that the water doesn’t have too many dissolved minerals left after reverse osmosis. This means that drip-drying works well, without spots.
The past couple of days have been very hazy, there’s a lot of Saharan dust in the air behind the frontal passage. That means that there are no more (boring) sunset pictures available in the blog at the moment.
Afternoon
I waited until after 15:00 before heading into town; as all the stores would remain closed until then. The bakery was closed, which was a disappointment. It turns out that they only remain open daily until noon. The grocery store was open, and I got some supplies to take back to the boat, including a baguette whose growth was somewhat stunted. After shopping I went for my daily hull scraping session. This time there was a lot less gunk, but I had to dive deep and long to find new growth. And I’m certain that spots I’d cleaned yesterday now had new green fuzz growing!
Evening
This time there was a bit of a golden glowing sunset due to the Sahara sand in the air, but overall it remains hazy. For dinner I’m going to make some rice and BBQ 2 sausages I picked up at the supermarket today. I don’t know what they are, but the looked pretty tasty to me at the time.
I didn’t make rice, but toasted half a baguette with compound butter on the BBQ. The sausage were indeed quite tasty, but I’d thawed out 2 and one was enough. The fish got the other one, and half the half baguette, too.