Monday we sailed/motored to Marsh Harbor as Terry and Peter were leaving on Tuesday. Marsh Harbor is the third largest town in the Bahamas but it didn't seem very attractive. It seemed similar to the rest of the Abacos but with roads and cars and without the charm of say Hope Town. We went into HarborView marina and Phil and Terry went for a walk. I had a shower but after I got back to the boat the rain came down in torrents for about 20-30 minutes and they returned looking like they were the ones who had had a shower.
Next day we said goodbye to Terry and Peter in the morning and then went to SaveAlot which is the down market grocery store. They sold goat meat and chicken's feet. I was worried that Phil would buy them but he didn't have a recipe so we avoided that. We had started by going to the only chandlers in Marsh Harbor for a port running light but they didn't have one. I did get an 8lb anchor for the dinghy which got heavier and heavier as we walked around looking for the grocery store. Then loaded up with groceries and by the time we got back to the boat my arms must have been about a foot longer.
We motored to Man o' War Cay giving Phil a chance to exercise his skill in fishing which so far has been an exercise in frustration. The only fisherman we saw was spear fishing. Man o' War Cay has a narrow and shallow entrance but we got in OK and picked up a mooring by the "town". We rowed ashore and explored the town which took a little longer than typing this sentence. We walked across to the Atlantic side and walked along the beach for about a mile. We met one couple in that time. Heading inland it turned out we went through private property in our search for the "road" back. We only found this out when we passed a blank sign that had private on the other side. We walked back into town along roads (well paths just wide enough for one golf cart) with names like Uncle Tweedie's road and Uncle Bennie's Hill. That just about exhausted what we could do in MoW so we went back to the boat.
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