Orient Beach and an eye problem

March 30, 2011

Early this morning Charlie sought someone to access our dinghy due to leakage of the air in the floor of our dinghy. the person could not even look at it until Friday.

After lunch Charlie and I took a long cab ride to Orient Beach on the NE side of St. Martin. The beach was beautiful. There were many cruise ship patrons also at this beach. The sand was fine and white. We settled in for a few hours of relaxation. I tried to stay under the umbrella. We didn't leave until after 5 p.m. when the each seemed to roll up. I was afraid we could not find a taxi back as many of the beach places were closed already, but we did luck out in fining a taxi to take us back to Marigot Bay. During our stay at the beach, Charlie's right eye began to bother him a great deal. He was miserable on our way back. He took out his contact lens but still felt that something was in his eye irritating it. When we arrived back at the boat, I found a packet in our medical kits dealing with eye problems so we irrigated his eye, to little relief . He finally fell asleep which brought him and me some relief.

March 31, 2011

Charlie's eye was very swollen and puffy this morning. After breakfast, we went to the Marina office to inquire about medical care nearby. We thought we would have to take a taxi to a clinic in Simpson's Bay, but there was a doctor just up the street. We missed his office but

found the pharmacy and the clerk there had just been talking to the Dr. so she went outside and called to him and we followed him to his office. He examined Charlie and prescribed several medicines for Charlie's problem. He only charged us $40.00 and the medicines (3) only cost $20.00. We stopped at a cafe on the way back observing all the busses bringing the cruise ship patrons to Marigot Bay. Charlie took his medicines and went to sleep once we were back on board our boat. We spent a quiet day aboard the boat. I worked on entering all our receipts on the computer. justifying our checkbook, and checking online for our bills. We enjoyed our cocktail hour with "pain killers" as we watched the sun set. Then Charlie grilled a steak for dinner with wine and salad which we ate in the cockpit with candlelight and light jazz music form the iPod. This is a typical evening on board for us.