April 1 Sam and Fred were stuck at Sampson Cay marina waiting for Suzie to come back from Colorado where she was being a grandmother so we joined him for lunch. He introduced us to some of his new friends and we all socialized for the afternoon.

April 2 The big excitement of the day was a gift of a large Amberjack by the manager of Fowl Cay Resort. One of their guests had caught it and they didn’t want it. Now we had to figure out how to filet the thing so John went to a neighboring trawler and asked them if they knew how. They said “kinda” so they came over and, between all of us thinking about it, got the deed done. We gave them half as a reward. 

April 3 We took Sam and Fred the dog in the dinghy up to Compass Cay to see our mutual friend Rosemary. She led us on a good walk over to the beach and on to another beach where we all looked for shells and sea glass. Sam spent the time in a tide pool staying cool and picking burrs off of Fred! Next, it was burger time back at the marina for all. After dropping Sam back at Sampson Marina, we headed home for a good swim off the boat. Now that we had cleaned a big fish on the boat, we had quite a manegerie living under the boat; a nurse shark, 2 large remoras, and about 4 rays. We had to swim by them to get to the beach and back. 

April 4 Well, today took the cake. We were minding our own business when not one, not two, but three small seaplanes landed in Big Majors to go and feed the pigs! They landed and took off right by the boat .Photos are attached.

April 5-7 We just enjoyed the area and our friends and swam a whole lot because it was getting quite warm. Every afternoon, the cruisers with dogs all seem to gravitate to “dog beach” so we all sit and watch them run around and tire themselves out. Can’t believe this is our last week here. There were more float planes landing in the anchorage but this time they were dropping off guests.