Good-bye Sally; Easter Grocery Shopping; The Mahi that got away

Thankfully we were only 15 minutes from the airport as we dropped Sally off at 6:15 am for her flight back to NYC then Harry and I carried on to the grocery as we needed supplies and it was scheduled to open at 7 am on Easter. To our surprise, many others also like to shop at 7 am Easter Sunday as the place was busy when we arrived at 7:05 am. Back on Juno around 8:30 am, Harry noted the winds were NW today and would be more northerly the next few days so if we didn’t leave today for Royal Island to the NNE, we’d have to wait several days until the winds shifted to a more favorable direction for our NE sail.  So we decided to leave town but first Harry had to fill our water tanks while I helped decorate the outdoor tents for Carolyn’s 80th birthday party tomorrow. We were  disappointed to leave ahead of the big party, but our hosts understood the weather dictates sailor’s schedules.  We cast off our lines around 11:00 am had a beautiful sunny day and stayed on port tack from West Bay all the way north to Royal Island arriving about 7:45 pm just after sunset.  But just before arriving, Harry caught a Mahi-Mahi!  However, in bringing the fish aboard, it shook itself loose from the hook and back in to the ocean it went. We ate our canned chicken salad sandwiches for dinner - a mediocre substitute for what dinner could have been.

One advantage of being in Nassau is the fully stocked grocery stores