Georgetown, services not necessarily available as advertised
For boaters, Georgetown is an outpost of sorts. There is a bustling town of about 1000 people. The largest town in the Exumas. The town has a small grocery store. A real grocery store with produce, and bread, and all sorts of frozen meats. It also provides free drinking water from a spigot at the dingy dock. Garbage disposal here is also free. Fuel is mostly available from a Shell station and an Esso Station. I imagine that like real outpost towns stuff is available when it is available then not again until it is available again, whenever that maybe…so get use to it. It was that way with fuel on our first day into town. We took our dingy across the harbour with 3 gas jugs, 3 diesel jugs and 3 water jugs. After filling up the water from the spigot at the dingy dock, I then walked over to Shell station to confirm they sold diesel and gas before lugging the jugs over. Yes they did. However the station attendant told me they couldn’t sell me any gas for an hour (which we immediately translated to 24 Canadian hours) due to their broken pump, and they had run out of diesel. Diesel should arrive tomorrow. Scouting things out at the Esso station I saw a sign on the pumps “NO GAS“. No problem, I would leave the jugs in the dingy and bring them back tomorrow to the most conveniently located Shell station and get both gas and diesel tomorrow. Wrong. After carrying the 6 jugs to the pumps from the dingy, I noticed a long line up of cars wanting the now available gas so I would start with the diesel pump. Asking the attendant if they now had diesel he replied “Oh Yes, we did get diesel”. Putting the nossle in the first can, of course no diesel came out. Today the pump for the diesel was broken. I bought 3 jugs of gas, put them in the dingy, and walked over the Esso station (the one with no gas) to purchase my diesel. While I filled the diesel jugs the attendent told me his woes of the gas pump. A couple of weeks ago the electonic board in their fuel pump fried, stopping the sale of their fuel. After installing and burning out two more sets of electronics, a technician flew in from Nassua and wired the pump around the electronics. They quickly sold out their remaining gas and now will wait a couple of weeks for more to arrive by boat. Barring any reasonable disruptions to services, after two more trips for diesel and four more trips for water our boat tanks should be full.
below is a picture of J&k computer shop. A 12 foot by 24 foot building with 12 people inside accessing the interet at once.
For boaters, Georgetown is an outpost of sorts. There is a bustling town of about 1000 people. The largest town in the Exumas. The town has a small grocery store. A real grocery store with produce, and bread, and all sorts of frozen meats. It also provides free drinking water from a spigot at the dingy dock. Garbage disposal here is also free. Fuel is mostly available from a Shell station and an Esso Station. I imagine that like real outpost towns stuff is available when it is available then not again until it is available again, whenever that maybe…so get use to it. It was that way with fuel on our first day into town. We took our dingy across the harbour with 3 gas jugs, 3 diesel jugs and 3 water jugs. After filling up the water from the spigot at the dingy dock, I then walked over to Shell station to confirm they sold diesel and gas before lugging the jugs over. Yes they did. However the station attendant told me they couldn’t sell me any gas for an hour (which we immediately translated to 24 Canadian hours) due to their broken pump, and they had run out of diesel. Diesel should arrive tomorrow. Scouting things out at the Esso station I saw a sign on the pumps “NO GAS“. No problem, I would leave the jugs in the dingy and bring them back tomorrow to the most conveniently located Shell station and get both gas and diesel tomorrow. Wrong. After carrying the 6 jugs to the pumps from the dingy, I noticed a long line up of cars wanting the now available gas so I would start with the diesel pump. Asking the attendant if they now had diesel he replied “Oh Yes, we did get diesel”. Putting the nossle in the first can, of course no diesel came out. Today the pump for the diesel was broken. I bought 3 jugs of gas, put them in the dingy, and walked over the Esso station (the one with no gas) to purchase my diesel. While I filled the diesel jugs the attendent told me his woes of the gas pump. A couple of weeks ago the electonic board in their fuel pump fried, stopping the sale of their fuel. After installing and burning out two more sets of electronics, a technician flew in from Nassua and wired the pump around the electronics. They quickly sold out their remaining gas and now will wait a couple of weeks for more to arrive by boat. Barring any reasonable disruptions to services, after two more trips for diesel and four more trips for water our boat tanks should be full.
below is a picture of J&k computer shop. A 12 foot by 24 foot building with 12 people inside accessing the interet at once.
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