Arpil 10, 2016 Church in Georgetown and Clausen's arrival

It was pretty windy this morning, but I took the dingy to shore by myself to go to church.  When you leave the dinghy dock, you have to walk around Lake Victoria to get to the Catholic Church.  It was only about a 10 minute walk.

St Theresa’s mass was at 10:30 am.  It was a lovely church with 2 wings.  They probably added on in the past.   The holy water font was a beautiful conch shell. I have been to so many small churches that sing a cappella.  So it was a real treat to have both an organist and a bongo player.  Everyone is always so friendly.  And most of the people walk through out the church giving each other the “sign of peace” during the mass, especially the children.  After communion, all the children lined up and had the priest give them individual blessings as he placed his hands on their head.  Even the ones that were old enough for communion joined in.

There was an older Bahamian lady sitting next to me wearing a fine suit and hat.  After mass, she asked if she could tell me a joke.  A priest was driving down the road when a policeman stopped him.  The policeman asked him what he had been drinking.  He answered only water.  So the policeman asked him what was on the seat next to him.  He said only water.  So the policeman asked if he could check it out.  He smelled it and said “this smells like wine”.  The priest said “Jesus must have done it again!”  She giggled and was so cute.
  
 

Holy Water Font

 

video at church during the time where we shake hands and offer each other the Sign of Peace


Our friends from Minnesota, Joe and Erin Clausen arrived today.  They flew into Georgetown and took a taxi to the dinghy dock.  It was very windy, so I stayed at the boat when Dave went in to pick them up.  Plus it’s pretty slow going in the dingy with 4 people and luggage.  Dave took our foul weather coats with him.  They were all 3 soaking wet from the rough ride.  They had also put their luggage in large contractor bags to keep them dry.

bundled up to stay dry not warm

We spent the afternoon visiting.  They had a new underwater camera they wanted to try out.  So Joe jumped in with his snorkel gear and took pictures of our prop shaft.  That was the first I had seen of the corrosion.

We moved our boat to the Stocking Island for some protection from the wind at anchor.  Just as we were finishing our anchoring, another boat came right in front of us and anchored closer than we were comfortable with.  We thought he was over our anchor, which makes it difficult to retrieve in the morning.  So Dave called him on the VHF radio and asked him to move.  He proceeded to argue with Dave about how he thought the distance was OK.  Most people would apologize and move.  But Dave let it go, probably because we had guests aboard.

It was too windy to go to shore this evening, so we had a spaghetti dinner on the boat.  It was a challenge to eat with the boat rocking from the wind.  We’re blaming the spilt wine on the rocking of the boat.