Day 45-46 July 21 - 22 Beacon Bay Maintenance and Henry's Fish

 Today was planned as a maintenance day to put on the new anchor light, and after routine engine checks, Ron found a potentially bad problem. The captain found a stripped screw that could have caused us to lose a shaft and prop. Thank goodness he's learned his way around the engine room so well. He fixed it well enough to get us safely home, however, it will need service at TBM when we get home. Our icebox decided to take a dive today. It is being used as a cooler for produce and lunch meat, juices etc. We'll have to cool it with ice blocks, but this is more of an inconvenience than a big problem. We still have an ice maker and a small refrigerator/and even smaller freezer. It takes about 2 novelty pieces of ice cream, a frozen piece or two of meat and maybe some frozen veggies. Enough to cover us . We'll not die of starvation at our current sizes :).
The laundry room is not too far from the pool, so, in between, I launder the sheets, rugs and stuff that will take forever in our washer on board.
This night we watch spiders weaving their webs and check out the new anchor light before going down for the night.

Ron's up early on Thursday to get sunrise photo's and we pull out an hour late (9AM). Missed a Skype call from Lynda, however, over the last couple days I have Skyped with  Mom, Dad, Erik and Sis. Although Ron and I have met great people, and we are having fun together, I am missing  my girlfriend company. We pass many island houses and kid's keeping cool in the water.  I am not a fish eater, but I enjoy every bite of my meal of whitefish at this famous restaurant.
We are able to explore the island a bit by foot to a helicopter pad that brings guests to the Island for lunch or dinner. The restaurant also brings in many small ferry boats from the surrounding marina's as well as planes landing close by and letting person's off at the docks for dinner.
The best fish I have ever had is enough to call this stop successful since I usually "choke down" fish dinners with lot's of tarter or cocktail sauce. Henry's is awesome and I would recommend that if ever you are nearby these waters that you plan to stop for lunch or spend the evening at their docks.
I only want to mention this once, but, it's been a theme lately in these water's.....inconsiderate boaters. I hope they just do not know better, because the other option is that they are A....H....'s. There a two photo's of many that I have taken on today's blog....and this was just after the boat did the same thing to us when going by. I would hate to think that of all the friendly people we have met that there are such inconsiderate boaters.