Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day. In the morning we dinghied over to the town on Green Turtle Cay called New Plymouth. We walked around and stopped in several shops. We were quite surprised by the nice, well-stocked grocery stores. Two of the grocery stores sold delicious looking fresh baked goods. We bought a cream cheese brownie in one and a loaf of fresh baked coconut bread in the other. We were talking to a very nice couple at the marina, Paul and Karen, who spend a lot of time at Green Turtle Cay, and they explained that the two stores, Sid’s and Lowe’s are each owned by two sisters who don’t get along. A daughter of one of the sisters does baking for her mother’s store but won’t bake for the other store. 
In the afternoon we walked over to the beach and bought some drinks at the Tranquil Turtle Beach Bar. We sat in the lounge chairs enjoying our drinks and the view.
The restaurant at the Bluff House Marina offered a Thanksgiving dinner so we signed up and shared dinner with Paul and Karen. It was fun to share stories of our sailing and docking adventures and mishaps.
A strong thunderstorm with lots of wind rolled through early this morning. When George went up on deck to check the lines after the storm passed he noticed that two boats that were anchored behind us and rafted up to each other were in a very different spot than they had been before. They were also very close to another boat that appeared to be backing up to get away from them. That anchorage is know for its poor holding. We were grateful to be tied up securely in the marina.
Paul and Karen helped us with our lines as we left the slip this morning. We joked about not wanting to add to Paul’s fodder of docking mishap stories. On our way out of the harbor we followed the barge that has been dredging the marina. We are now anchored at Manjack Cay, an anchorage that Karen and Paul highly recommended. In the past two years we have rushed through Abaco with the idea that we would return at the end of the winter. That hasn’t happened so this year we decided to take our time here. Abaco has a lot to offer. One thing we don’t like, though, is that the anchorages seem to have quite a bit of grass, making it harder to get the anchor to hold. We have found that, in addition to trying to drop the anchor in sandier patches, we need to be even more patient that we usually are to allow the anchor to settle in.
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