After a nice day onboard with a bit of snorkelling, reading etc. We went ashore to investigate a bus into Road Town for provisioning before we head to Turks & Caicos which will be about 3 days of sailing. We see a very nice guy who is one of the cruise ship tourist bus drivers who tells us that there are not local buses but that the government have set the taxi fare at 24$, so if we found a taxi heading to Road Town with someone in they can only charge us 6$US each. He said that some of the drivers will try to tell us differently and said he didn’t agree with all of the dual tourist prices that the less reputable charge. We really appreciated his honesty and decided at that rate it would be easier than taking the boat and when we are ready we’ll possibly go that way, depending on how much we decide we need as $24US goes a long way to make up the price difference locally too.
Cane Garden Bay
We also investigated the price of fuel at the petrol station which is on the waters edge and includes a dock to supply boats. They also supply water. It was more expensive than prior to the BVIs but sounded like it could be good value for here. We decide to wait until we meet Mike, a friend we last met in St. Lucia who has been doing skippered charters on his boat Jeannius – Liverpool (Red one, not blue) this season in the BVIs with his wife Jean (Wonder were the name came from). We had been emailing Mike and were expecting him in Cane Garden on Sunday following his last skipper only charter. Jean had taken the chance to go back to the UK to see family and friends and was due back the following week.
We decide to treat ourselves to a drink and meal ashore this evening and just pick the fullest looking bar. We discover that this is because it is Happy Hour, beers for 2$ each, not only this but on today’s Happy Hour includes 50cents a chicken wing. There are many people enjoying this offer in the bar and some ordering quite unbelievable portions of chicken wings however, I did not see any returning to the kitchen.
Kevin has some chicken wings followed by the house special of curried calamari with dan cakes (local bread product) which he thoroughly enjoys. I opt for the vegetarian eggplant dish which is fairly average but have a pina colada for desert which makes up for it!
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