A Day of Synchronicity in Spanish Wells

So we’re here, finally – our cruising destination. The first night was a bit rough in the outer harbor, so we determined to find an alternate place to anchor/moor the boat for the next 5 days, until it’s hauled out on Monday for the bottom painting job.

Yesterday we wandered the lovely little town to find out where things are – the pics below are mainly from that walkabout. We negotiated the exhorbitant fee for the importing of our fridge through customs, located a great airbnb for next Monday-Wednesday, when we need to leave the boat, ate a delicious lunch at Budda’s, bought lobster tails for a dinner stir-fry, removed the old fridge parts (yes – that’s Jeff sitting in the fridge) and gratefully fell into bed, exhausted from a very full day.

But today was full of synchronicity – beginning with moving the boat to the customs dock to load the new fridge parts. We happened to get there at the exact right tidal moment, placing us right at dock-level. We had been worrying about where to deposit the old parts that Jeff had removed last night. As we tied up at the dock, along came the garbage truck, which happily took the fridge remains!

Then we loaded the new fridge, and wondered where to anchor the boat, when we noticed some moorings near-by. A radio call to the owner ascertained that there was just one mooring left, and it was ours! So we booked for 5 nights, at $25.00 a night and tied up, just as a dolphin surfaced to greet us.

As soon as we were moored, we left in the dinghy for a 10:15 a.m. appointment to meet at the dock with the owner of the airbnb, so she could show us the house. She ended up taking us on a guided tour of the whole island, and while we were preparing to leave – she handed me two large green tomatoes from her garden. “I can’t believe this”, I said. And I told her that last night I finished reading the book “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café”. At the end of the book, there are recipes that were mentioned – with the star being fried green tomatoes, of course. I thought to myself that I’d love to try that recipe, but where would I get green tomatoes, as they’re usually sold when they’ve ripened already. So here I was being handed two of them, out of the blue – what synchronicity!

We fried them tonight, according to the recipe, and ate them as part of our dinner – Yum-m-m. Tomorrow we tackle the installation of the fridge – hope we’re just as lucky with that as we’ve been all day today 😊.