When we were leaving the anchorage this morning I looked over the side of the boat and saw a couple of fins in the water. I showed it to Bill just as I realized it was a shark! We were moving too fast to really see much of him, and we didn’t have the camera ready.

It was a very low wind day so we decided to experiment with our whisker pole. We turned off the engine and just drifted for a while as Bill figured out the best way to use it. The pole holds out our jib sail when there isn’t quite enough wind for it to fill on its own and to keep it from collapsing when sailing directly downwind . It’s not that easy to use but we are trying to get more comfortable with it. It was the perfect weather for it though. Hardly any wind at all.

Once our experimenting was over we motored down the Sea of Abaco toward Marsh Harbour. There were lots of boats coming the other way. Everyone has been waiting for the weather to change so they can move around again, some are heading back to the U.S. There is one section that is very shallow so you have to head out into the ocean for a bit to get around it. While we were coming back in Bill found a dolphin swimming next to our boat. He finally had his camera and a playful dolphin at the same time. The dolphin liked swimming just in front of our boat under the bow sprit. You can see in the picture above that we were moving along with him. He was swimming underwater in our bow wake.

Unfortunately the Whale part of the title isn’t because we saw a whale, I wish we had. No, the cut we had to go out to get around the shallows is called Whale Cay Cut. It’s known for being rough sometimes. Luckily today it was no problem. We will have to go through it again in a week or so when we head back north. Hopefully it will be just as easy the next time.

We arrived in Marsh Harbour at dinner time and were lucky to find a good place to anchor. There are a lot of boats here. We haven’t gotten to town yet but we will check it out tomorrow.