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Steve & Chris
Fri 22 Jul 2011 16:04
40:49.86N
73:42.87W
Friday 22nd
July 2011
Distance run: 19
nmiles
A good
sail yesterday afternoon back round to Port Washington to collect our
propane gas cylinder from the hardware store where we left it last weekend for
filling. The bad news is, they can't fill it. The even worse news is they
have kept it at the filling depot rather than sending it back to the hardware
store and we plan to leave here tomorrow.
No problem, say the
hardware store, we'll give you a US propane tank full of propane instead and
just charge you for the gas. Result. We've already bought one US
cylinder at $80, so getting one free of charge is definitely a bonus, since we
can't get the UK ones filled anyway here,and only with great difficulty in the
Caribbean.
So we walked up the
hill to collect the propane, then stopped off at the Mediterranean cafe for
brunch. Steve had ham,eggs etc and I had three deliciously fluffy
blueberry pancakes with syrup. There are some things I absolutely love
about the US, and their pancakes are definitely up there! The cafe
owner is Turkish,and we got all sentimental about Turkey when looking at the
Turkish goods on sale.
Later we went for
drinks on Amokura as we will be leaving to head south tomorrow and
Kevin will be heading north when Jean returns from her trip to the UK
tomorrow. Then we all adjourned to Nimue for supper and since we
don't need to leave to catch the tide until the afternoon, it was not an early
night...