It's a skinny cut between Dove Cay and Long Island into Cockburn Harbor and there are not that many spots to anchor close to shore in this crystal clear shallow bay. We made three attempts to anchor with not enough water nor enough sand to hold our hook. We are seriously thinking about one thing...sleeping! Not food, not customs...just getting back and crashing.

We got the dingy down...headed to shore in record time!

It's the queens birthday...yep, nothing open. Customs and immigration are closed up tight. Somehow we have the uncanny luck to arrive on a weekend or a holiday! We are just going to fly the quarantine flag and call it a day!

We found Darrel, Danny, Mr. Edgar Claire, Whitfield (a firefighter too) and Cleaver. We were the beneficiaries of hospitality from Danny and Darrel of Sea View Cafe and Grill where we some sausage (baloney fried) and eggs and we got 'stories' from Whitfield and Edgar as entertainment while we ate. Cleaver remembered us from our three day soiree three years ago when we crossed the Caicos Bank and bought some conch. We are truly blessed.

It didn't take us long to pull up anchor and move over to Long Island. We got the 'cruiser skinny' from Stephen Pavlidas' guide and I can not wait to check out Mae's Bed and Breakfast. We will jump on that manana, maybe.

This is Whitfield...what a character!