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The full moon on Tuesday evening was magnificent. Skies were clear and the moon rise was amazing.

We spent the next few days cleaning Samba and doing a variety of boat projects that had accumulated as we waited out the windy weather in anticipation of our good friends, Greg & Sheila Cobb's, arrival on Saturday morning.

True to the forecast, Saturday the wind was crazy high. Fortunately, it didn't rain as we headed to town to get groceries for the coming week's adventure. Enroute to the grocery store, we stopped at Colors restaurant for some lunch.

Back at the boat, we discussed the need for conservation of water since we have to make all of our fresh water with our on-board desalination unit. The good news was that Jim found a way to completely eliminate the need for toilets and the holding tank. This is the new ultimate in conservation and eco-friendly cruising! Woo hoo!

In the course of discussing our new invention, we had to have Sheila try out the device to make sure it fit OK.

Ahhh yes, it fits just fine. Time will tell how Sheila likes our new "Poopy Loopy Whoopie" line. When you have to do your poopy thing, you just put your legs in the loops and get lowered overboard using the crane. Then, when finished, you yell "Whoopie!" and after a couple of quick dunks, you get raised back into the boat. All fresh and ready for a great new day!

Sunday dawned bright, clear and calm - - a wonderful change from the past few days so we headed out for Man-O-War Cay, just 4 miles away. Once underway, Greg helped Carol put up all of the dock lines.

Once anchored, Greg & Jim went in to check out the anchor. Interestingly, there were lots of dead sea biscuits in this area.

After a bit of beach combing, we returned to Samba for some burgers before heading to the little village on Man-O-War Cay.

We had a number of these beautiful little long-tailed terns flying around the boat.

Man-O-War Cay is a cute little village that has been a boat building center for the Bahamas since the 1800's. Like much of the Abacos, they were decimated by hurricane Dorian in 2019 and are still in the process of rebuilding. Cruisers from all over the US & Canada came to help with the early recovery efforts. The signs on this pole are from many of the areas volunteers came from.

There were quite a few cotton plants scattered around the town.

This is the island's primary school & post office.

There was a herd of sheep "downtown". This is Mr. Grumpy. He didn't seem to care for us or our efforts to interact with him and had a real low, gutteral voice. Funny.

This is one of the boats they make here.

We had hoped the place we anchored Samba would give us protection from the winds & waves. However, when we returned to the boat in the middle of the afternoon, we decided it wasn't very comfortable. Soooo, we raised the anchor and moved a mile or so over to a small island where we anchored behind it to keep us out of the wind & swells. It turned out to be a good decision as the winds increased through the night and moved around a bit more. PTL!

Tomorrow, the forecast is not so good. Rain & thunderstorms & high winds are in the offing so we plan to seek shelter at a cute little marina nearby. We'll let you know how it goes.