Moving on down
22 February 2008 | Little Farmer's Cay
Mike
During the weather learned that "Strathspey" was in Black Point with us. We had never actually met these folks but they are friends of friends and have spent quite a bit of time in Georgetown during the last couple of months. I have been looking forward to meeting them and to hopefully gain a little information about anchoring in Georgetown.
The big question was the dinghy. Was the floor going to stay in place or not? It actually looked solid but without a test we were never going to know. We hoisted it back into the water an inflated the tubes... no leaks. We lowered the motor in place and still no leaks. Finally, I took off for "Strathspey" and put it up on plane. Again no leaks.
I spent a few minutes with Blair and Mary before returning to the boat to run a bag of garbage ashore and to collect 12 gallons of water while we had easy access. After getting things organized, we hauled the anchor and headed for Little Farmer's Cay. It was an uneventful cruise down the bank until we arrived. The approach called for us to run just a few feet from the limestone outcropping. It was scary. Around the point and into the harbor it wasn't much better. There were channels of deep water but there were also shoals in the middle. As we motored through and got the lay of the land...or water in this case, it was not a problem.
We ended up on a mooring and wandered to into the settlement later in the afternoon. There wasn't much there but as always, the people were friendly and polite. We wanted to go to the Ocean Cabin, a restaurant that had been recommended, but it was closed until later and we didn't want to wait around.
Back at the boat, we had a nice meal and watched the first half of a movie that Jim and Beth had sent along with us.