Sea Dreaming

Hi everyone: We've only been back for a month and I'm not even sure if the Baynham's are back as yet and I'm all ready thinking about next year and how it can be made even better and stress free. Example, our daughter, like her mother, gets extreme motion sickness at even a thought of sailing, although, I haven't given her mother much of a choice and she has gotten much better. She went and layed down outside numerous times but never hugged a bucket once this trip. What we're thinking is that for around $100. or so we could fly our daughter from Nassau on a charter to Norman's Cay or Staniel Cay and reduce the bucket hugging for her by a day, IF her and her beau even get holidays and IF we return to the Bahamas which seems likely. Everything that goes on the boat new or gets upgraded is going to be tested with weekend ventures out to Panther Key so we know everything works before we get to the super expensive shopping grounds and if the motion sickness isn't an issue then maybe next year may be the year we carry on farther to Rum Cay and perhaps on to the Turks for a visit.

Last week we watched some folks fishing at one of the condo's here and he tossed a few fish on the lawn and within a few minutes you could hear a Bald Eagle scream and see it approaching so the guy picks up one of the fish and throws it in the water, the eagle swoops down and grabs it and disappears. This happened several times and then on one trip the eagle takes the fish and drops into a yard on the opposite bank and eats the fish himself. The guy later hooked into some giant fish and he another guy jumped into a boat and travelled around and round for a couple hours until he finally lost it.

Pictures are the eagle enjoying his lunch on the opposite bank, the guy who was feeding him, a shot of the live-aboard dock with a big space available for Baynham's boat :) and a shot of more of the docks which are mostly empty with the roof of the motel in the backround where the gym and pool are located. The last one is a giant ssb antenna that I have to find a place to install, a new mixing elbow, some zincs for the raw water only engine and the much coveted kit needed to hook the hot water tank to the engine heat exchanger so we can have hot water while anchored out for extended periods. Just need someone to get it all installed!