We have been in George Town a week now, and it has been a busy week.
We are anchored at Monument beach, so called as there is a large "monument" at the top of the hill.
There are a couple of trails up to the Monument, and Kris did them all. Dean did two of them
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| Dean at the Monument |
We were planning on staying a little longer in the Ragged Islands, but a weather window came up to head north to George Town on the Exuma's Islands. Being low on groceries, needing more propane, short on gasoline for the dinghy, and needing to get some hardware, we decided to leave and take advantage of the weather.
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| At anchorage in the cut between Little Ragged and Ragged Island. Charm on far left. |
Haven't done much since last week. Took some nice walks, and relaxed on boat. Dean made a nice batch of cinnamon rolls.
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| Look much better than Kris's cookies from last week. |
We had a few days of strong winds, so pretty much just stayed on the boat.
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| Saw a max of around 28 knots, while waiting out a 3 day blow |
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 |
