Merry Christmas to all!

Well! You can't even begin to guess what we've been up to! A whole lot o' nuthin'! Strolling, beach-bumming, coconut husking (that was actually the most work we've done in a few days!) and lazing about. I'm getting a tan for Christmas!
We're now anchored in White Sound, Green Turtle Cay. Chelonidae is lating for green turlte...cool, huh? We're finally seeing the real Abacos! The pictures of town here are all of New Plymouth, pretty wee thing. Yesterday we went to a service at theEpicsopal church. Nice people! The service seemed so familiar to me; the songs, topic of sermon, delivery of said sermon, the whole shebang...reminded me of my very early Christian days in Calgary. Then the reverend introduced himself as being from Medicine Hat, Alberta, the same part of town that bred all the preachers along the "Bible Belt" of Alberta. Ahah! It was a very pleasant experience.
The beach shown above is where we do our bumming, picnicking and annoyance of the home-owners who get to erect little beach shelters for private consumption. The beaches are all public below the high water line, but we like the idea of shade, so we tend to park in the private areas. The sand is of course beautiful and soft. The swimming is pretty exciting at ebb tide, but we're not dare-devils, so we paddle around at slack water. In the photo's background, you can see breaking water over some reefs. Reefs are only fun in perfectly calm water. James has bought some fishing gear, so I can't wait for him to go out to the reefs and catch me a fish. Yellow Tail Snapper, anyone?
Anyhow, we have all our Christamas trippings and trapping and up, saved some candy canes from last year (delightfully ...um...chewy. Yes, Chewy!) and bought some LED Christmas lights for added cheer-factor! The winter days here are really short, sunset at 5:30, so the more cheer the better! If there are no friends to keep us busy during the evenings, we tend to turn in really early. 8, 8:30! I'm embarrassed. But not tonight! A nice lady has invited the whole anchorage over to her place, a 46' Warram Catamaran, for Christmas eve cheer. Her name is Ann, a salty dog indeed! She single-handed at least two long distance passages, including the same route as we just did from Beaufort, and from Rhode Island to Ireland. And tomorrow, Christmas Day, there is a pot-luck for the whole community. Whee!
So wherever you are, we do hope you have a Merry Christmas! Enjoy yourself, your loved ones (for us it will be love from afar...we miss eveyone!) and Christ our Lord.