Life on Guana Cay and a Spoil Island dink

 Power on the island has been off several times since we arrived. No doubt much of this is related to the fire at the main power plant but all of Marsh Harbour was out recently because a garbage truck hit a power pole. I probably shouldn't say this but the internet access has been relatively stable and performance is definitely better than it was last year.
 As part of living aboard I went and tried our Village Marine desalinator in the water over here and it let us down yet again. It's producing water at 500 ppm total dissolved solids and that is marginal performance at best. We had ok performance in the US waters but over here the water it produces is not up to their own standard.
 I have a feeling their in house membranes are not all that great. I may elect to try an alternative brand membrane and see what happens.

 So we took the dink out to Gumelemi Cay and Spoil island yesterday. The water was quite calm so the ride was fine. We could have gone out in the Atlantic to a reef if we wanted to but heck it's only a 340 Avon with 18hp! There were a number of small boats on the water given it was Sunday and the water was flat. Many of them chose to go where we did so we always had some company about. I have to admit that Spoil Island has been picked over well so the variety of shells on it has dwindeled since last year. But we managed to collect some and here is a photo of that collection.

Hopefully as the season continues and we visit other places the diversity of the shells will go up. I've updated the GPS tracks to include the dink outing and will upload some more photos of what things are like around here. The sunsets have been nothing less than spectacular.