I am the Eggman
April 4, 2019 Thursday Tavern Cay (Tilloo Cay), Abacos to Man O War Cay, Abacos 8.7 nautical miles.
26°35’44.7″N 77°00’36.3″W,
26.595761, -77.010091
Elevation: 0 ft
After a day off yesterday, Mary is really chatty today.
Along the Way
We’ve tuned into the Abacos Cruisers Network every morning at 8:00 am on channel 68 ever since we’ve come to the Abacos. It’s a great little community group serving the boating community. It starts with weather and tide, invitations and announcements, arrivals to and departures from (hellos and goodbyes) the Sea of Abacos then finishes up with open mike. The VHF (very high frequency) radio is like a party line. Everyone eavesdrops on everyone else conversations. And sometimes not so secretly. In the Berries and other remote cays it is used like a telephone because cellular reception is so poor.
Man O War Cay Harbour
I love Looper people! As we were dingying into the harbor a woman yelled out to Mary “I love your hat”. Mary yelled back “Thx! Are you a Looper?” We were invited in for coffee!
Walk about
Man O War Cay is historically know for boat building, sail making and wood work using island hardwoods.
Albury Brothers Boat Yard
Other Boats
Art and Gardens
Jeff F this one is for you
Shell shop. Mary tried blowing a conch horn and couldn’t get a sound out of it. May be if she’d have take tuba in high school she might have been able to blow it.
Conch horns 
This type of flotsam art is pretty common on all the cays.
Just down the road a bit
Hot and thirsty we had to stop for an Arni Palmer.
Man O War didn’t have a bread lady but it did have an Egg Man. He said they were laid yesterday. $5 a dozen. Mixed sizes and mixed colors.
We stopped at a grocery store for a couple of other items. Look what we found!
You know morbid Mary. She can’t get past the cemeteries. Beautiful wood work the cay is known for. Not a bad place to spend eternity.
Dale took these pictures. Hard work to manually dig a grave site.
HA! Man O War Cay has a mini me Glass Bridge. We had to check it out.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
You get a couple today ….
Eavesdrop started off literally: first it referred to the water that fell from the eaves of a house, then it came to mean the ground where that water fell. Eventually, eavesdropper described someone who stood within the eavesdrop of a house to overhear a conversation inside.
John Lennon nicknamed Eric Burdon, vocalist of rock band The Animals and funk band War, “The Eggman” https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_true_story_of_why_john_lennon_nicknamed_eric_burdon_the_eggman
I Am the Walrus ~ The Beatles
Lyrics
I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g’joob
Dr. Eggman, a fictional character, is a rotund mad scientist who plans to conquer the world is the main antagonist of Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog series.
Drolleries and Yuks
Boat Names
– Cow Pie …. It’s gotta be a mono hull sailboat
– Scaramucci ….“The Mooch, The Mooch”
Dale re-christened our dingy from “The Escape Clause” to the “The Mooch”.