Day 2, Sunday

Morning came early. The sun rises right into our bedroom and the curtains are very thin. But we didn’t mind.

For breakfast we had oatmeal, cereal, and peanut butter and jelly toast.

Shortly thereafter, the Reverend, aka the fruit guy, pulled up to the Boat House to offer us a delectable assortment of fruit and vegetables out of his pickup truck. Many dollars later, we had a few pieces of fruit to eat.

We immediately headed over to PCBC to talk to Ned. Hope had questions and needed answers. Ned made a deal with us. If we took his staff home at 12, we could have the car at no charge and do some more grocery shopping as well as try to find Tito’s and buy some fresh fish.

After leaving PCBC, Hope went to the beach and I headed to the Alligator Creek to do some canoeing. This was the worst canoeing experience ever. I saw no wild life and the water was only about 6 inches deep the whole way. I had to drag the canoe through muck and mire.

Hope met another couple from Montreal that were staying at PCBC. They were French Canadians, Carl and Melanie. They chatted for a bit and that was that.

At 12 o’clock we were at PCBC picking up the staff. Ned mentioned that he was sending another couple (the Canadians) off to the Smoke Pot for dinner tonight and that he would ask them if we could join them and split the cost of the car. We thought that sounded good.

We headed north and the ladies told us all the things we were passing. We dropped off the second staffer in Arther’s Town, and then continued north to Orange Creek Grocery store. We spent around $50 on just a few sacks of groceries.

On the way back we stopped at Titos. Unfortunately, Tito was still at church. However, Paul, a Bob Marley type of guy was walking down the street. We offered him a ride and he said he knew where we could get some fish. So, we took him a bit past PCBC to The Bluff where he called for his friend. Unfortunately, his friend did not have any Snapper, which is what we were looking for. He did, however, have some Tile Fish, so we bought one – for twenty dollars! We have no clue if it will be any good (and found out later that Hope can’t eat Tile Fish because of Mercury).

When we got back to PCBC, Ned let us know that we were “dialed in.” Meaning, everything was a go for the Smoke Pot and he had ordered us the crawfish, which is actually Spiny Lobster. We were in for an expensive night!

We met the frenchies back at PCBC at 6:45 and headed back north to Arther’s Town. Melanie and Carl were very cool. They actually just got engaged and were next flying to Hawaii.

After getting a little lost, we landed at the Smoke Pot. We weren’t sure we were at the right place, though, because there wasn’t a sign and there was no one else there. But Melanie asked, and we were at the right place. We got some drinks, pulled up some chairs at a table outside, and chatted. After a little while, several plates arrived loaded with a huge lobster tails, salad, and baked potato. And it was really good! When finished, we got our bill – only $42! We couldn’t believe it. That was cheap for this island!

Afterwards, the cooks played us a little Rake ‘n Scrape music. Rake n’ Scrape is a type of music indigenous to Cat Island, and produced using a screw driver scraped along a saw blade, along with drums and usually an accordion. There's a video of the Rake 'N Scrape here.

We got home around 9:30 and hit the sack. It had been a long day.