Captain’s Blog

We had an early morning departure from Warderick Wells on our way to Rock Sound Eleuthera. The cut from Warderick Wells was wide and fairly easy to navigate when we went through in the morning.

There were four or five beautiful white long tail birds chirping noisily as we went through the cut.

Another easy day of sailing as winds were favorable across Exuma Sound.

Sailing all day with no engine was a treat! We finally turned on the engine at the entrance to the Harbour.

We had a small explosion as we entered the Harbour. Our air horn got too hot in the sun and the Freon exploded out of it.

We left our anchor spot this morning heading north. There was a cat beside us that had 3 little boys helping dad with the sails.

Once underway we turned off the motor and just sailed – the first time in a long time.

It was a pleasant day for a sail so we took it easy and enjoyed the peace and quiet.

Quiet day at Warderick Wells – we didn’t even get off the boat even though we got here early afternoon.

Jeff got a call from a fellow sailor having transmission problems at Great Harbour Cay and tried to help him as best as he could. He remembered Jeff had helped with Mark’s transmission last year – although that involved a trip to Miami, cousin Dani in Ft Lauderdale and Titan Air.

Tomorrow off to Eleuthera!

Leaving Cleopatra’s place was bitter sweet. We enjoyed coconut bread French toast the morning of our departure.

The cousins spent the last few days at the Peace n Plenty resort in town. We spent some time at the pool, snorkeling, eating at the Sand piper cafe and enjoying the view from the harbour.

They left yesterday – back to California. Jeff and I set sail this morning – heading for Littke Farmers Cay. We took one last dinghy ride to town to get some gas and a few groceries before we hit the open water.

Since we went ahead and bought a fishing license while Glen was here we decided to throw the pole in the water and do some trolling.

This was what the fish may have looked like that took our lure. We will never know.

Coming into Farmers Cut was a bit rough. But Captain Jeff handled it like a pro. We are now at anchor at Guana Cay just North of Little Farmers Cay.

Another beautiful sunset!

After an early breakfast we drove up north to the bakery for some cocoanut bread. Then off to the sandpiper souvenir shop

Then off to Little Exuma to go to Tropical Breeze

Afterwards we did a little snorkeling then back to the vista. For dinner Glenn grilled his fish he caught – wahoo!

Linda and Glenn from California came to stay in Exuma for about 10 days. We rented an Airbnb with a boat dock from Turquoise Villa – it was perfect!

Our first day we rented a boat from Minns and went snorkeling and then to the Coconut club.

The next day we went on the 7 beaches tour with Exuma Water Sports.

We also went on the “lazy river” which was not lazy at all. The current was so strong and it was really tough to get back on shore (for some of us who went too far).

We spent time at the man-o-war sand bar – amazing!

We were back at our place early afternoon. It was so nice to be able to dock our boat right in front of our Airbnb.

We found a live conch who we think got stranded during high tide. Glenn put him/her back in the water after we saw it struggling to find the water.

Linda and I went to the Tropic of Cancer beach while Glenn and Jeff worked on the boat. The road to the beach was pretty sketchy.

Today Jeff and Glen are out on a deep sea fishing adventure while Linda and I are going beach hopping 🙂

For dinner we went to Blu on the Water. The food was amazing!

Made it to Browns marine today.

The bait section was quite interesting!

That was pretty much the extent of our day.

The weather was a little better so we took the dinghy to town. Had a nice walk, did some shopping and got groceries.

After our quick trip to town we dinghied back to our boat for the evening. Dinner: spinach salad and tilapia – yum!

We didn’t do anything today since it was too windy!

We left Cave Cay cut early morning. The current was quite strong going through the cut but after that the sailing was perfect all the way to Georgetown

The mooring field was full so we anchored right next to it along with a lot of other boats. Harvest Moon, with all their flags, stood out from the crowd.

We did go to town but everything was closed by the time we got there (except for Minns water sports). We came back to a lovely sunset and a LOT of conch horns.

We decided to go to Little Farmers Cay because the sailing would be better tomorrow to go to Georgetown. There was supposed to be a place where you could snorkel and see sea turtles We didn’t see them in the bay so we went to the dinghy dock to check out the town (population 66). Then we saw the turtles.

We also met some nice sailors from Uruguay and Argentina and they had their daughter from Brazil. She loved the tortugas.

Later we motored back to Cave Cay and anchored near the sand bar we tried to find yesterday.

The low tide was not quite low enough to walk on the sand but we did get it to about our ankles. Found some lovely sand dollars and met some other sand bar enthusiasts from Canada. They are also heading to Georgetown tomorrow.

There are about 10 boats at anchor ready to head out the cut tomorrow morning. On to Georgetown.