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By Jennifer

We set sail from Cat Island 50 miles across the Exuma Sound to Black Point in the Exuma islands chain. You may recall we stopped in Black Point when we first arrived in the Exumas. We headed back this way because the wind was blowing in this direction and we needed to get some laundry done in the finest laundromat in the Exumas — Rockside Laundry run by Ida. In addition to getting laundry done there, you can purchase showers, donuts and carrot cake — which we did.

Other highlights on this stop included:

• Watching the local teenagers enjoy their spring break. They come home from high school from Nassau. The island hosts a DJ and activities for the teens.
• We ate pizza at our favorite Bahamian pizza place — De Sharmon’s for Easter.
• We had an Easter Egg hunt on the boat. OK. Not quite like home. We only had six eggs left and Kevin and I wanted to eat them sunnyside up for breakfast. So, I told the kids they should color and cut out paper Easter Eggs. This went over very well with Madeline, but came up quite short for Zach who was disappointed that there were no plastic colored eggs filled with gobs of candy. I tried to explain that those plastic eggs are only available to the Easter Bunny from Target, not at the produce stands in the Bahamas! EB came through for the kiddos assigning a monetary amount for each colored egg they found. Ka-ching!
• Meeting a young man we endearingly call “Shell Boy.” Kevin and I were on our way to “Sandra’s Fruit Stand” when Shell Boy stopped us on the street and invited us to come and see his shells for sale. We weren’t exactly in the market for buying shells since we have been collecting them along the way, but we humored him. Once he knew he had our attention, he said with a big smile, “Ok. Walk fast!” We did. And when we arrived at his stand on the edge of town he unveiled his shell inventory which was kept in a three-quart sauce pan. The selection amounted to your everyday clam-shaped shells, about 100 of them. Afraid to ask and not wanting to offend Shell Boy, I gently inquired, “How much are they each…?” “Two dollars,” he replied. Well it wasn’t going to break me, so I picked one shell and he enthusiastically supplied a ziploc bag for me to carry it in. He was thrilled closing the sale.
• Finding our previous boat owner’s boat card on the wall at Rockside Laundry. Look closely at the middle card — Fantasy Island. Frank and JoAnne had been there and now so have we — on the same boat!