(Written on Friday, February 16 – no
internet for posting)
What a lovely day this was! We’re now “gunk
holing” through the Exuma Cays – we stay overnight at one Cay, explore it the
next morning, then move on to another, 1-2 hours away, on flat water, with
consistent 78 degree sunny weather – perfect!
Yesterday we were at Shroud Cay, where this
morning, we took a skinny dip bath off the stern in the turquoise water. Then
we motored our dinghy through a curvy, mangrove-lined creek all the way from
the shallow “Bank”, where we’re anchoring, to the deep ocean beach at the
Bahama Sound. A sea turtle accompanied us for part of the way, and we used our
hand-held depth sounder to make sure the ebbing tidewater was deep enough to
negotiate.
Back on Sea Change after lunch, we weighed
the anchor and had a smooth 1.5 hour ride over to Hawksbill Cay. We reanchored
and dinghyied to a long white-sand beach – deserted except for one other
couple, with whom we spent the rest of the afternoon walking and chatting.
Sailors seem to have so much in common – it’s uncanny, and easy to make friends.
As we sauntered along with our feet in the water, we needed to be alert to not
step on the many little starfish basking in the sun at the water’s edge.
A steak dinner with wine finished another
perfect day. Tomorrow we head off to Warwick Cay – the heart of the Land and
Sea Park, and hopefully some excellent snorkeling and hiking for a couple of
days. By then our provisions will have run out, as well as our tolerance for
being totally disconnected from the internet, and we’ll need to high-tail it to
Staniel Cay, and relative civilization - 2 tiny grocery stops called the “Pink
Store” and the “Blue Store”, and a dock to refill our water tanks. Tough life!
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