Preparing for The Bahamas...

First purchases...

We arrived in Fort Lauderdale yesterday afternoon, headed straight for the beach and stayed till dark; can't get enough of the white sand and crashing waves.  

Anyways, we're not here to frolick on the beach, we have some major preparing to do and projects to attend to, so this morning with a list in hand we headed to West Marine.  However on the way we came across this huge warehouse called 'Sailorman', both a new and used marine store and it has everything; our new go to for our boat needs.  For the first pick up we got 2 extra water jugs, an extra diesel jug, bilge hose, an extra bilge pump, solar vent, LED anchor light, LED utility light and 2 used safety harnesses (mine's the green one and Erik's is the yellow).  These harnesses are a little overdue and I'm glad we found them.

A very productive first trip, and a great find of a store, as our usual runs to West Marine consist of back and forth down each aisle 19 times and coming away with a quarter of what was on the list.  We found everything we need at this store, we couldn't buy everything on the first run since we can only buy what our packs can carry, but a couple more trips should do it.

We have to wait on a proper weather window to cross to The Bahamas and that doesn't seem to be happening for at least a week, maybe longer. No worries though, we have lots to keep us going until then.  We can be patient.