Needing that Vodka Tonic !

Thursday 16^th June.  Location:  The Zapatilla Cays

So this morning just for a change it rained! I cooked omelets, grilled tomatoes and bacon for brunch.  We’re down to our last few ounces of drinking water, although we do have gallons of beer, nothing new there, Daisy’s always well stocked with alcohol!  However, the need to get to a shop and buy water is pretty urgent now.  We headed out around 11am, and made the short trip up to the main Bocas area, I slept the entire way.  The lagoon was really difficult to navigate with the depth rising frighteningly fast from 60 feet to just 6 feet, Bob’s charts on the area couldn’t have been more inaccurate, and we almost ran aground a couple of times.  

Once we were safely anchored, the plan was to shower, change and go ashore check out the marina and buy water; sadly Daisy had other plans, one of the davits refused to function, meaning we couldn’t lower the dinghy into the water, this discovery preceded 7 hours of working to release the dinghy from the malfunctioning davit and get it safely into the water without injuring either ourselves or the dinghy, it was a lengthy difficult procedure, and not without many associated problems, which I won’t go in to.  Then we (we being the royal we, meaning Bob) had to dismantle the davit, investigate the cause of the problem, drop one of the parts into the lagoon, cuss, swear and throw a few toys around, and then work into the night putting the damn thing back together.  In the midst of all this, once the dinghy was in the water Niki and I went ashore and bought the much needed water.  Dinner was late, and no exploring was done, but it’s just boat life, and I did have the vodka and tonic I desperately needed, all be it without ice  :o(