Sunday, December 20, 2009
I spent a miserable night alone with my cold. The blocked up nose and stuffy headache were bad enough, but being alternately hot and hotter and not being able to sleep was worse; then trying not to cough because that would exacerbate the headache. Right now I am feeling better but debating going into Road Town and getting some medications at the pharmacy. Hopefully the congestion will clear up in the next few days as my two German guests, Carmen and Bernd, are coming expressly to dive and I want to join them.
I think I will head off to The Bight this evening, but I may stop in at Soper’s hole for some provisions (medicinal beer supplies are running low) and to see if they have a cold medicine section. I would leave now, but the Sunsail Jeanneau 37 is still anchored over my chain and since it took them almost an hour to get anchored yesterday I’ll give them a bit of time to see if they look like they are preparing to leave.
They left at 09:30 so I followed them, motoring half the way because it was directly into the wind, then sailed once in the Sir Francis Drake Channel and arrived at the Pelicans to find that all the national park moorings were taken, so I went straight to The Bight on Norman island and, after taking a mooring ball, took the dinghy to the Caves and went for a bit of a snorkel. I tried diving down about 3 feet to get a close up picture of some fish and the blocked up sinuses became quite painful; diving is certainly out for a while.
Deliverance is a delivery service for groceries, alcohol and other goods and also picks up garbage. I got a baguette and some butter from them (paid $10 for the two items) but am going to grill up a steak with some fresh garlic bread on the “barbie” tonight. It won’t come close to being as good as that which my mother cooks, but will hopefully satisfy my appetite tonight.
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