We spent a nice couple of days at Double Breasted Cay. Met some nice folks.
Rita on "Como No", took some time to teach me Bahamian Weaving. You use silver palm fronds to weave. I just made a small item to learn from, but will try bigger projects later.
We stayed at Lee Stocking Island for 4 days, while a front passed through. Spent time exploring on shore, and working again on our dodger. Lee Stocking used to house a marine research center which is now abandoned.
It is interesting to walk around the island and see all the abandoned equipment, supplies, and buildings. It was probably more money to remove the items than to just leave them.
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| Ocean side view from Lee Stocking Island |
We have moved south slowly. We left Nassau on December 29th, and motored over to Normans Cay. Our friends on Bedouin were there, so we had a nice walk on the beach with them catching up.
Next day, we went to Fowl Cay, where we worked on our Dodger project a bit, and hung out on the boat for a couple of days avoiding south winds. When they died down, we headed north to Soldier Cay, and anchored there within the Exuma Land and Sea Park, in order to snorkel the Sea Aquarium. We did the snorkel, but were not that impressed, we thought we remembered it as being better last time in the Bahamas. Since you have to pay to anchor in the Exuma Land and Sea Park, we left the next day and sailed down to Pipe Cay.
We liked Pipe Cay, and ended up staying there for 7 days. Did some snorkeling, worked on the dodger project, hiked on shore and relaxed. Unfortunately, did not take many pictures.
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| Our view at Pipe Cay |
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
We had a good weather window, and a schedule so on 12/22/2021 we left the Abaco's and headed south to the north end of Eleuthera - or more accurately the west end of Royal Island. Weather was good, with winds 16 to 25 knots, so we made excellent time, although the seas were 4 to 6', the ride was not bad.
