We left George Town on March 12th
with some rough going out of Elizabeth Harbor and some big swells but
only for a short time. The
rest of the sail was an “Al” sail rather than an “Arleen”
sail so it was a bit uncomfortable. However, not so uncomfortable
that Al could not put his rod in the water. When the first fish hit
we had to take in the genny to slow down and readied the cockpit for
the land. He finally landed a 35” Mahi! Then he filleted it and I
got it into the refrigerator while he cleaned up the blood and gore.
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| Al's First Landed Mahi |
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| Al's Second Catch of the Day |
About two hours later he had another hit, another Mahi but this one a
female the same size as the first which he also landed. Now we
definitely had enough fish for a while! We shared some fish with our
buddy boat
Suncat once we got to Black Point where we
anchored. We went into town to Scorpio’s where the cruisers
gathered for Happy Hour and listened to the sailing and fishing
stories.
Laundry was our duty for the next
morning at Rockside Laundry which is one of the nicest laundries in
the Bahamas with a small shop and she will cut hair as well! A front
was to come in from the north so we moved to the other side where we
had spent Christmas in Little Bay. Pat and I went beach combing and
found some sea glass and a few nice shells. We hit it at low tide
which is the best time. Then Pat and Tom came over for what else,
but a mahi dinner. Afterwards Pat explained the Bahamian way of
playing dominoes and guess who won. Me, but unfortunately we did not
play for money like the Bahamians!
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| Regatta Park |
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| What a view! |
The next morning we visited with
First
Edition with
whom we spent a lot of time with in December.
It was nice catching up with them on what they had been doing.
After defrosting the freezer and lunch, Al and I decided to walk into
town to get some exercise. We entered at the west end of Black Point
so I showed Al Regatta Park where there are some nice views.
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| The Jail at Black Point |
I had
been there on our last trip but he must not have taken the walk so
missed this. After looking out into the harbor with the white caps
and boats rocking we were glad we had moved to Little Bay. He also
got to see the police station, jail and the government clinic.
When
we finally got back, we figured we had walked 6 miles so we did get
exercise to work off the calories from Pat’s nachos concoction that
we had at happy hour which ended up being our dinner.
The next day we sailed up to Staniel
Cay anchoring off the Thunderball Grotto. That is the famous
underwater cave that was seen in the James Bond movie of the same
name.
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| Al feeding the fish. |
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| A type of snapper |
We snorkeled the cave later in the
afternoon when it was low tide and fairly slack water. It was great
seeing all the fish especially when Al fed them bread crumbs. The
Sergeant Majors just really swarmed him.
Outside around the cave we
saw some interesting fish and plant life as well. It definitely was
worth snorkeling in this area. It was one of the best snorkeling we
have done. Later that day we went over to Staniel Cay Yacht club to
discuss our plans and to have a drink.
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| The view to Rachel's Bubble Bath |
We decided to move up to the north end
of Compass Cay to go to Rachel’s Bubble Bath. You go to shore and
walk up through an area of sand and water until you get to a pool
surrounded by rock. There is an area which is worn down and the
waves from the sound side crash over and make bubbles that you can
swim in.
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| Rachel's Bubble Bath | |
Since the temps were just barely seventy, we chose to just
enjoy the site without the swim. It would have been even better if it
had been high tide. However, it was a fun time with Pat and I always
looking for shells or sea life along the way. These sea urchins are
under water with stones stuck to them. I had never seen that before.
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| Sea Urchins |
That evening we had a wonderful stuffed
pork loin dinner with roasted vegetables and orzo over on
Sun Cat.
Ending the night with teaching them a game called Uno Rummy UP with
the “newbies” winning. For some reason that doesn’t seem fair.
We plan to go to the southern end of
Warderick Wells Island and pick up a mooring off of Capture Beach
which is protected by Hog Cay tomorrow.
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