This morning we left for civilization... Staniel Cay. Realizing that this, to some, is a bit of a stretch it was the closest we have been to a 'town' since Nassau. We headed out the cut north of the Cay to head out onto the Sound side. We were hoping to try our hand at fishing again as it had been a while since we had spent the last few days in the Exuma Land and Sea Park (no fishing zones). Alas, the fish did not bite as we trolled our largest lures. It will be lentils again tonight! We pulled into Staniel Cay late morning and went straight to the fuel and water dock at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club. It had been 2 weeks that we had filled our tanks so we were 'thirsty' for fluids. Water now comes at a price. It is priced here at 40 cents per litre - almost 30 dollars fills our tanks. We are topped up and ready to go. Connor was dying to get to land to explore. He departed at the fuel dock and Kerry and I pulled over to the anchorage, anchored, deployed the dinghy and headed over to land ourselves. The other 'filling up' we needed to do was propane. We gathered our tanks and walked through the town to the outskirts to drop off our tanks for filling. This process is by gravity and is quite slow. We ended up meeting a couple on vacation on the island. While waiting for the store to open, we ended up chatting and even bumped into them later that day at the yacht club. We ended up inviting them out to do the Thunderball Grotto and the pigs tomorrow as they had that in mind and we all thought it would be fun to do together. (more on that later). We did end up hitting one of the two grocery stores, One is the Pink Pearl and the other is the Blue Store. We each bought an apple and gobbled it down. We have been out of fresh foods for a while. It felt like the juiciest apple I had ever had!!
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