Shantytown or Retirement Village?

Our routine in the morning is the listen the “The Net”. It’s a daily VHF broadcast between the boaters in Marmaris Bay and gives information on weather, general concerns in the marinas, items needed or for sale, people for looking for advice, etc. Some of it is useful information but most of it seems be filled with social announcements and chit chat between the live aboards. Easter Sunday seems the be throwing the schedules off because ‘the ladies stretch and tone class’ has to be rescheduled due to the ‘tea and talk’…… as you may be able to tell many of the live aboards are a bit older than we are and seem to be very comfortable in this home away from home. Or maybe I am just jealous because they don’t seem to have as many boat projects as we do!
The first item on the morning’s agenda was getting our internet working. It has always been a big frustration while here because the signal is never very good. And living on a steel boat doesn’t help. We end up putting our wi-fi adapter on a cord and snaking it outside for better reception. It seems to make its way higher and higher up the mast in hopes of a better connection. But when it didn’t even work at all in the office I knew we had a problem. We found the IT guy and apparently he worked his magic. Because I have spent my day in the library updating this blog while Mike and ‘Apache’ are working on the boat. The blog is important too, right? I had a pleasant return home when I saw the framework for the cabinets already completed in the head! Even though we won’t be able to use its ‘facilities’ until we get back in the water, it sure will be nice to have the space.