We woke up this morning to the sound of rolling chain. It's pretty common that boats arrive in the morning or evening and the sound of chain usually prompts us to pop our heads out the hatch and check out the change in the neighborhood. But sometimes the sound is deeper, which means a bigger boat, like a megayacht. And then sometimes it's much deeper. This morning was really deep so we knew we had big company. But we're getting a little jaded so we didn't even bother to get out of bed. Then ten minutes later, more big chain, and five minutes later, even more! So we popped our heads up like prairie dogs, and there was not one, but two cruise ships. The second (closer in the photo) had dropped two anchors. Their scale so totally dwarfs everything else that they dominate the scenery. And come evening they will light up the entire area. Fortunately they rarely stay more than the day and don't show up very often. I guess Christmas cruises must be popular.
We've been working away on our annual maintenance. We've upgraded software and setup our weather retrieval systems. The last two days were spent servicing winches; totally disassembling the winches into a myriad of gears and parts, each cleaned, dried, lubricated and then reassembled.
The winches sound so much quieter and smoother that despite the totally grungy job it's pretty satisfying. We've easily got another 4-5 days of stuff to do so we'll stay here through New Years, then head to Los Roques.
And what better place to finish up the annual maintenance than where Fay can quickly get to shore and return laden with fresh baguettes and French pastries?
