It was our friend Bill on
Rosinante's birthday today.
Bill is a former chair of the George Town Cruising Regatta which takes place here each year (
http://www.georgetowncruisingregatta.org/). This year he's volunteered to help organize the selling of t-shirts until the chair of that activity arrives. We volunteered to sell t-shirts yesterday with Ted and Judy of
Helen-Irene and Nancy and Chris of
Liberty. Chris, who is twelve years of age and home-schooled, greeted everyone who arrived at the dinghy dock with an invitation to purchase a t-shirt. He was a definate asset to our sales team! Proceeds of the sales help to support the cruising regatta as well as The National Family Island Regatta (
http://www.exumabahamas.org/article-family-island-regatta.html) which is a Bahemian regatta.
The following are some photos of George Town. This is the straw market where women fondly known as 'the straw ladies' weave baskets and sell their home grown vegetables. The tomatoes are amazingly tasteful! Yesterday, I met Arizona who is a timeless eighty-year-old who had a family of ten. Amazing...
This is Regatta Park where a variety show is held on the last night of the George Town Cruising Regatta.
This is a photo of the main street.
You can see the government building at the end of the street in this photo.
This is a photo of the local library with bleachers left over from the December 26th Junkanoo Festival still set-up in front.
We spent the rest of the day with our raw food friends, Ralf, Birguitte and Pascalle. Aloe Vera is everywhere on their property.
Prickly Pear is an edible wild. The young pads, called nopalitos, with soft immature spines, can be used as a component of a dip, diced and included in a salad, peeled and marinated. The ripe fruit, often called tuna, should be picked with thick gloves and are edible raw, sliced into a fruit salad.
This is a more mature chia plant, referred to in a recent blog. It is edible when boiled.
Agave plants from which agave nectar is collected grow wild along the road-side in The Exumas.
Here are some of Birguitte's baby greens. This first tray is barley, grown in soil.
These are sunflower seeds; great nutrition at a fabulous price and most people's favourite!
For dinner, Birguitte made a beautiful salad of baby greens with onions and tomatoes grown by 'the straw ladies' at the market. The dressing was made from a fresh coconut.
We also had a salad made from spiralized pumpkin with onions and a bit of Bragg's.
The spiralized beet salad had a lime dressing.
We felt blessed to be together once again and to be sharing the finest food on Earth.
We made our way back to our boat in our dinghy under a galaxy of stars with Ralf and Birguitte's copy of Victoras Kulvinskas's book entitled Survival Into The 21st Century in my back-pack. This is one of Ralf's favourite books which I've meant to read for some time now. It is sub-titled Planetary Healers Manual.
Yesterday, Gail, Jan and Sylvie joined me on an afternoon walk on the ocean beach. It was a great day for collecting shells.
Here's a photo of Sylvie, Jan and Gail with our anchage in the background. Our's is the smallest boat, sixth from the right in the fore-front of the picture.
Life is good.
Bill is a former chair of the George Town Cruising Regatta which takes place here each year (http://www.georgetowncruisingregatta.org/). This year he's volunteered to help organize the selling of t-shirts until the chair of that activity arrives. We volunteered to sell t-shirts yesterday with Ted and Judy of Helen-Irene and Nancy and Chris of Liberty. Chris, who is twelve years of age and home-schooled, greeted everyone who arrived at the dinghy dock with an invitation to purchase a t-shirt. He was a definate asset to our sales team! Proceeds of the sales help to support the cruising regatta as well as The National Family Island Regatta (http://www.exumabahamas.org/article-family-island-regatta.html) which is a Bahemian regatta.
The following are some photos of George Town. This is the straw market where women fondly known as 'the straw ladies' weave baskets and sell their home grown vegetables. The tomatoes are amazingly tasteful! Yesterday, I met Arizona who is a timeless eighty-year-old who had a family of ten. Amazing...
This is Regatta Park where a variety show is held on the last night of the George Town Cruising Regatta.
This is a photo of the main street.
You can see the government building at the end of the street in this photo.
This is a photo of the local library with bleachers left over from the December 26th Junkanoo Festival still set-up in front.
We spent the rest of the day with our raw food friends, Ralf, Birguitte and Pascalle. Aloe Vera is everywhere on their property.
Prickly Pear is an edible wild. The young pads, called nopalitos, with soft immature spines, can be used as a component of a dip, diced and included in a salad, peeled and marinated. The ripe fruit, often called tuna, should be picked with thick gloves and are edible raw, sliced into a fruit salad.
This is a more mature chia plant, referred to in a recent blog. It is edible when boiled.
Agave plants from which agave nectar is collected grow wild along the road-side in The Exumas.
Here are some of Birguitte's baby greens. This first tray is barley, grown in soil.
These are sunflower seeds; great nutrition at a fabulous price and most people's favourite!
For dinner, Birguitte made a beautiful salad of baby greens with onions and tomatoes grown by 'the straw ladies' at the market. The dressing was made from a fresh coconut.
The spiralized beet salad had a lime dressing.
We felt blessed to be together once again and to be sharing the finest food on Earth.
The edible wild is called the Seven Year Apple because it takes along time to ripen. As an experiment, I'm going to put a piece of netting around one piece of fruit that is half black (they're ripe when they're black) so that the birds don't eat it before I can!
Here's a photo from the beach walk that we take most afternoons.
I find the scenery breath-taking.
It was a relatively calm day.
Sargassum seaweed was on special!
We had nine people for dinner and the sprouts were well received.
Plastic tops from peanut butter jars placed under the plastic needlepoint sheets (guage #10) prevent the roots of the baby greens from rotting.
This is what the alph alpha seeds looked like a few hours after I transferred them to the trays from the jar in which I had originally soaked and sprouted them.
