Swimming with the Fishes

We are still here at Bimini Big Game Marina. We have been around the island a little and found a lot of our old friends. We saw Sandra and Nikia as well as some other friends. BJ got a ride from Stevie S, the Plain Jane of Bimini and he has a new album out that I guess I will have to buy. She was returning from a long walk with Simba; who just discovered her first goat. She was very curious and so was the goat. We have laid pretty low since we got here and have been doing a lot of cleaning on the boat and trying to figure out all of my electronics. Luckily the Satellite TV has been great, we just don’t have local channels. That is yet another project I have to work on. We have, however successfully watched Shrek 3 on Pay-per-view. BJ has figured out the Washer/dryer combo on the boat, so we can now change clothes. At least I can, as BJ brought one swim suit per day for this entire voyage.

Yesterday, we had lunch up at the Big Game restaurant, when someone asked if that was out dog roaming the docks. Normally she does not leave the boat without us there, but we left the super-duper-Brian-enhanced dog ramp from the boat to the dock. She must have the extra confidence now that I have made it more stable and less abrasive to the boat, since she used it. We put her back on the boat and continued to eat and have a couple of Kaliks in the afternoon. All of the sudden someone asked again if that was our dog. I searched the docks with my eyes as fast as I could, but I could not see Simba. Then I saw her: swimming in the marina. She was swimming in the water pictured below while we were dining up in the balcony shown.

She must have tried to get off the boat again without the ramp and fell in. Luckily she is a great swimmer. She swam over to a ladder that I climbed down, but it was too awkward to balance and lift her about 6 feet from the water to the dock. We spotted a small fishing boat on another dock, so I went to the boat’s swim platform and Simba smoothly and with great speed swam over to me, where I could lift her up and over to the dock. Needless to say she had a great day with her walk, swim and a bath.

Tonight we will be grilling out on the boat. We have already paid off the security guard so it should be ok. Hopefully Arthur brings us some lobsters and a conch shell for BJ so she can blow it at sundown; a Bahamas tradition.

Herb Update:
For those of you that don’t know we decided to grow some of our own herbs so we can cook with them on this trip. It is a hydroponic system and BJ gets really excited when she sees significant growth. The chives are really growing fast as is the parsley and basil. My only complaint, is that the grow light is so bright is looks like a nuclear power plant in the cabin at night, so now I cover it at night.