We left for Allan’s Cay this morning and it was a great trip until I did something stupid again. As we were looking for a place to anchor I could see that we were heading into shallow water. Bill was on the bow telling me to go forward and I didn’t tell him we shouldn’t go there until it was too late. Yep, we ran aground again! This time it didn’t last long though. He came back to the wheel and put the boat in reverse, gave it some power, and off we came. Of course we had an audience. All the boats anchored around us, including our new Canadian friends from yesterday, were watching. We went back into the deeper water and this time anchored without any issues.
Allan’s Cay is the only place in the world the Exuma Iguanas live. Apparently it is such a big deal that the cruise ships in Nassau, which is fairly far away, have an excursion that brings a couple of fast open power boats full of people to climb on the beach, take pictures of the iguanas. We waited for them to leave before we jumped in our dinghy and went to check them out. We got lots of good pictures but the one above is my favorite.
We met some nice people from Rochester, NY on the beach and went over to visit with them later. It’s nice to see that the social part of our trip is coming back. We hope we don’t get to meet the people on the boat that sailed into anchor while we watched from that other boat. They are anchored very close to us and are the only boat in the anchorage that has two anchors out. That means they won’t move the same way we do if the wind changes direction tonight.
If you haven’t noticed yet we were able to put some of our Bahamas photos up in our
Photo Gallery. Go check them out. We also put a picture of the Octopuses Garden on our last update. It doesn’t come close to being as exciting as it really was but you can see at least one fish in the photo.
Tomorrow we leave for Norman Cay. There are a couple of caves on that island, and Bill brought our caving gear, so maybe we will actually use it.