Time to Catch Up!!
31 May 2013 | Nassau Harbor Club Hotel and Marina
Phyllis Pardee
We have been having so much fun I have really fallen behind on posting so will try to bring things up to date and hope all will forgive me!
We left Georgetown and spent one night in Black Point on our way back to Staniel Cay. There was a bbq on the beach to benefit residents of Staniel Cay and we decided to go join in the fun. Met new friends, caught up with our friends fromTanqueray and Navi and had a good visit. Met new couple Logan and Gillian on Stella Blue today and a delightful couple
Richard and Laura invited all of us over for sundowners on their Hatteras 78 Forever Young...we all got a chance to see how the other half live and had a wonderful time. Laura and Richard are wonderful people and we hope to catch up with them again. Big Majors seems to be the gathering place for boats coming and going and we also caught up with Kim and John on 2Awesome and Don, Linda and Rick from Koinonia II. We all had dinner aboard 2Awesome and watched Thunderball in honor of the grotto.
I have mentioned in previous posts that we have decided to return to the states and find a different boat to continue our cruising so we moved along to Cambridge Cay and were able to snorkel several times at the Aquarium which is reef also known as Coral Garden. What a fun time!!!
So many fish and so much to see. We met Brian and Donetta from Dream Catcher and Dan and Jennell from Palagic again and had a good visit. One morning we had a guy in a tender come along side asking us if we would change mooring balls as his captain needed the one we were on for his 165 ft yacht....he was very nice and we had no problem with moving. The captain later came by to thank us and brought us two bottles of wine AND gave us the security code for the yachts internet so we could check in with family. We have had such a good time meeting new people and making lasting friendships.
We were off to Warderick Wells for a night and had fun feeding the three remora that decided to camp under our boat. A fellow boater saw a 10 ft hammerhead shark and was able to catch a photo of it....that cured me of wanting to snorkel there that day. We left there and spent the next night at Shroud Cay where we met the gang again and all went to ride through the mangroves in out dinghies. We had a great time chugging along and one route took us to the ocean side where we walked out and then floated in on the very strong current. Fun times, good memories and we will definitely go back to these places again. We had a great dinner aboard Pelagic--thanks again to Jennell and Dan!
Highbourne Cay was an overnight only for us and we anchored right in front of the Batelco Tower...I was sure to have good internet connections there!! We spent the night and left the following morning for Nassau.
We beat weather but not by much and had a great all day sail with good breezes into Nassau Harbor where we quickly dropped anchor. THEN THE RAINS CAME! It has rained for 4 days straight with one squall after another coming thru. Everything has been wet and damp and we have done the rock and roll at anchor! We found friends in the anchorage and Bill assisted John and Dan in getting Dan's anchor and chain unsnagged from debris on the bottom. They had to fight currents and wind as well as the rain and it turned into a two day affair but they succeeded!!! Dan and Linda took their boat Koinonia over to a marina as their crew Rick had a flight to catch and they too wanted to get their boat dried out and chores done while plugged in! They treated us all to a wonderful dinner at the Green Parrot as a thank you for helping and we had a really fun time.
We pulled anchor up this morning to come and top off fuel and found that the marina finally had an empty slip so we too are plugged in and have the a/c going to get the dampness out of the boat. Bill and I walked over to The Fresh Market to get a few fresh fruits and veggies and then spent time at the laundry taking care of essential laundry of all the wet clothes and towels. We plan to leave Nassau in the morning and will spend the night anchored out by the Northwest Channel Light (that doesn't light up)
which is about half way to Bimini and we will continue on to Bimini on Sunday. Hoping for a rest day there and good weather report to make the jump from Bimini to Florida where we will find dockage around the Ft. Lauderdale/Lake Worth area while we go looking for a new and bigger boat. We have already contacted a boat broker and put things in motion for selling our boat. I am eager to get home to see family but we will definitely be coming back soon to continue cruising in the Bahamas!