JVD to Cane Garden Bay

The guests again try Christine’s Bakery and again come back empty handed and disappointed.  Mike starts the engines but only the port engine splutters into life.  Now what?

We motor around the corner to White Bay using just the one engine which makes manoeuvring to a ball interesting.  Even though it is only 10 o’clock when we arrive, there is hardly a mooring ball to be found.  Well, one with a ring attached to it anyway.  We watch as one boat after another attempts to moor up to the ball next to us which has no line.  One eventually lassoes the ball and is effectively tethered.

The guests go ashore and Mike sets to with the starboard engine.  Firstly he has to dismantle Megan’s bed as he has discovered that he cannot easily get to the starter motor or solenoid (one of which is probably the source of the problem – at least he hopes it is).  Mike uses a very sophisticated tool – the handle of a screwdriver – to hit the solenoid and, hey presto, when I press the starter button, it works.

When they return we motor to Diamond Cay although we can already see that the Bubbling Pool will probably not be very bubbly.  The Atlantic, which is visible across the reef between JVD and Little JVD is flat calm.  It needs huge waves breaking to create the bubbling effect in the pool, as the sea is forced through the narrow inlet.

We have lunch then they go off to see if the our assumption regarding the pool is correct.  Unfortunately it is, so their hike is for nothing, although they go the scenic route and see some large rock drops and cacti.

When they return to the boat we motor over to Cane Garden Bay and they go ashore to explore and look at the restaurants.  We hear someone calling out to us.  It is another TTOLer, George, the owner of Voyage 440, Dreamcat.  Mike and he chat for a while about engines, rudders, driveshafts versus saildrives, that sort of nautical stuff.  The rest of George’s crew look bored stiff and I can’t understand a word of it, then our guests call for their ride back to the boat and we wave goodbye.  Nice people.

They go to The Big Banana for their evening meal.  Mike and I are not hungry and just share leftover coconut rice and mango mayonnaise.  It suddenly pours with rain.  The weather forecast has been wrong so much in the last few days that it takes us by surprise, but at least it gives Jeannius a quick rinse, to remove some salt and sand.