GTC begining of the Weekend

We said goodbye to our new friends who just got married today. I spent the most of the morning trying to synchronize e-mail and write in the blogs, since I have had so many urgent requests from our avid readers. The weather is perfect: 80deg. with a slight breeze. The water is crystal clear. We are in love with this island. The people, the weather, the scenery and everything else is just great.

BJ started her dive lessons today with Brendal and his wife. It is pretty cool since they are basically teaching her on a one-on-one basis. She did her lectures and then we tooled around on the dink. We made it into New Plymouth settlement and discovered a cute Little city. It is very disorganized and very local. You will walk by a house, then a church, then a hardware store and another house. And they all look the same. It was great!

We were looking for parts for the dink, like the drain plug since the one-way valve does not work properly, so we went into the Black Sound as well as all the hardware stores in the settlement. We found nothing, so I still use the tupperware and the plastic cup as our bailer.

We took the dink over to Pineapples for the Friday night party. As it turns out, the regular musician went home because it was raining a little. We met up with Brendal again and head over to the sundowner, I am beginning to see a pattern... We hung out there for a while, but went home before midnight, because we were both pretty tired. It was a great dinghy ride home at that time as the wind had died down and the water had calmed. Ironically we unknowingly passed the Hark the Sound sailboat in the harbor.

Sorry, no pictures today. We will try harder.

The Food
The Wrecking Tree
I had a grouper sandwich which was to die for. A must have!

The Bluff House
We dined in the fine dining restaurant and placed our order by 5:00PM again. I actually had to call from Brendal's Dive shop to meet the cut off time. They have only 3 sittings; 7:00, 7:15 and 7:30. We chose 7:15 and were hurried along when we were just chatting with our friends from England. BJ ordered the Mahi Mahi, grilled with some sort of peppery sweet salsa over it. It has to be the best Mahi Mahi that I have ever tasted. I ordered the lamb, which was very good as well, but I could not get over the flavor of her fish!