What do you DO all day?

One of the most common questions cruisers hear is "What do you do all day?" This was one of those days that just disappeared.

We made some major progress this week but we were approaching a point where we needed some materials and hardware to continue. Our main concern was having everything we need to keep working. Today was Friday and the town pretty much closes up for the weekend (at least the shops we needed) so we took a day off from working on the boat to scrounge up what we needed so we can work through the weekend.

This also gave me a chance to check out more of the city. It was a walking tour. We walked all over the place. What we needed proved to be quite tough to find. To make it even more complicated, none of it was found at the same place. It turned into an egg hunt that took several hours. Our list was very simple. Some lumber, chain, a chainfall, and a bottle-jack. Some stores were dead-ends but usually led us to another. It was pretty crazy but we got our stuff we needed. We got some interesting stares as we wheeled our overloaded hand cart down the sidewalk.

Our path took us down main street. I didn't think about taking pictures(we were on a mission) until we ran into these guys. I thought is was pretty clever. It might be difficult to tell from my rapidly snapped picture but the guy on the sidewalk is holding up a stick of wood and the guy on the top is holding onto the top of it. There is no other means of support. Neat trick. They were a little boring tho. That's all they did. It takes more than this to get stray coins from me!

On our quest for parts we walked all the way around to the other side of the rock. This is the more dramatic side you always see in pictures. The city is built right up to the base if it. I guess this rock is riddled with miles of tunnels carved into it by the Brits and you can easily see the various gunports and other holes even from the streets.

There will be more on this later. For now we have our cart full of hardware and had to get back. It was hot!