A busy weekend, and a sojourn to Secret Harbour

After a little whirlwind of weekend activities - the Mt. Airy Young Readers Program, the (disappointing) Super Bowl at de Big Fish [funny aside: Rikki was showing it on the big screen using ESPN on satellite, which was a great picture, but had to change it to the feed from Miami because...none of the commercials were being shown on the satellite version], a trip up to St. Paul's for the community center's pre-Independence Fair, and a visit to the Independence Day Parade at the stadium(and then back to St. Paul's for steel pan and oil down, cooked by our friends Stephen and Sean), we escaped rolly Prickly Bay for a few days. We motored over to Secret Harbour, the bay just to the east of Prickly, and tied up at the marina here. Other than the occasional workboat disturbance, it is really quiet. It's still blowing like crazy, though the wind is supposed to lay down for a day or two, Saturday to maybe Monday ("laying down" seems to mean less than 20 knots).

On Wednesday JP and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary with a dinner at a relatively new place near Secret Harbour; it's called The Cave House at Mt. Hartmann Bay, and it is both lovely and delicious, with wonderful service. Check out the website:

http://www.mounthartmanbay.com/

Early Monday we will head for the docks at Spice Island Marine (a boatyard, not a marina), where the solar project will be done (we hope). Susan and JP have done most of the wiring and installed the controller; TechNick will do the necessary welding and bending to mount the panels and then we will hook everything up with fingers crossed.

Susan is back in NH until the 14th, and we think we will start trying to head north around the 20th or so. It will not be easy to leave.

Here's a second slideshow; sorry, no captions, but I think most of what's happening is reasonably self-explanatory.