September 2 - No Diving :(

Thankfully, hurricane Felix turned a little north and was just a big rain storm for us, so we were not evacuated, and the power didn’t go off. The only impact to us was that diving had been cancelled for our first day due to the surf. We went down to the office to get an update, and connect to the Internet to find out what was happening with the storm. We went down to Eden Beach and the waves were between 3 and 4 feet, so we were not unhappy that there was no diving. We have some new equipment to check out and wanted calm waters to do this. The dive Wannadive shop gave us a hard time about payment, saying that the Golden Reef Inn was $30,000 in unpaid dive vouchers. We talked to Liz at Golden Reef Inn and she immediately straightened out the problem. Turns out that Wannadive had been charging things to the Golden Reef Inn that they shouldn’t have been. All things turned out OK. We did a short drive around town to see how things fared from the previous evening’s storm; the biggest impact was that the streets leading to the water we closed and the street that ran along the water front was also closed.

In afternoon we spent some time in the pool to cool off, it feels much warmer at this time of the year because of the humidity. I was looking at the current weather reads from Eden Beach and it said it was 100% humidity, which normally means it’s raining, but it wasn’t. I went for a late afternoon nap and woke up about two hours later, and there was no sign of Trudy in the unit. I correctly assumed that she was talking to someone. I returned to the pool to find her talking with Liz the owner of the Inn, and Renota, the former owner of the “Lost Penguin” restaurant; our favourite breakfast restaurant no longer on the island; they sold, and the new place is not as good. For dinner we did my favourite “take-away” again, but this time we ate it by the pool, and I enjoy a couple of Polars (beer) with my meal. After dinner I got my computer and Trudy spent some time on Skype with her daughter, OK, she talked for about 45 minutes.

Again...Sorry no photos