Terry
03/07/2008, Thunderball Cave

It is very rare to see this kind of color in the coral. Usually you have to dive at dusk or at night and use lights to see all the real color in the coral.

The Coral is all dying or dead throughout the Caribbean. This was a real treat to see such vibrant living Coral.

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Terry
03/07/2008, Thunder Ball

The colors are so vivid in the fish and the coral that the camera had a hard time dealing with it.

This is what we saw it is not doctored.

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Terry
03/07/2008, Thunderball

Lots of you have wondered and asked what we do all day. Welllllllllll this is it!

We have invited one and all to come visit and enjoy this as well.

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Terry
03/07/2008, ThunderBall Cave

Not much to add other than as good as pictures look they dont come close to what it is really like.

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Terry
03/07/2008, Thunderball Groto (Cave with a hole in the roof)

This is thunderball cave at Staniel Cay in the Exuma Island chain.

This is the groto where 2 James Bond films where filmed. Never Say Never and Never say Never Again. James came through the hole in the roof and droped down into this cave.

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Terry
03/03/2008, Rum Cay

Sunset at Rum Cay. One of the many outstanding Sunsets we get to see.

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Terry
03/03/2008, Rum Cay

Whenever we do a deep water ocean crossing I like to drag all my fishing gear. On our trip from Long Island to Rum Cay I lost all my good lures. They all got cut off.....This is not uncommon if you dont use steel leader and you get hit with Wahoo. Well I lost all my "bait" so I pulled out one of my Tuna rigs. These rigs are made for dragging Ballyhoo(a small fish as bait) and a colorfull skirt slides over the head of the Ballyhoo. Problem.....I had no Ballyhoo but these were all I had to throw over, so I threw only one line over thinking it was a waste of time. The first thing I caught was a Marlin. These are catch and release Trophy fish that people spend big money to "try" and catch but most never do. The second fish I caught was this Dolphin (not that kind of Dolphin). We fed 8 people with 1/4 of this fish that night!


The Photo was taken at our Anchorage at Rum Cay Note the Clear water and coral heads all around us.

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Terry
03/03/2008, North tip of Long Island

This is a Statue Marking the Place where Chistopher Columbus first landed.

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Terry
03/03/2008, Georgetown to Long Island

We left Georgetown the morning of Feb 19 and fell in with and unusual number of boats heading to the same place. All totaled there were over 30 boats. Most Cruisers dont go any further than Georgetown. They like the protection of the Exuma Island chain and the shallow water cruising of the Bahama Banks. The Islands further south and East are more remote, offer less protection and you have open ocean crossings of deep water to get there.

These Islands also provide more of the unspoiled experince of the Bahamas.

Most Boats only knew one or two of the other boats in this Armada yet by the time we got to Long Island we had made arrangements for a family style dinner for 44 people. There is a local lady who will make a family style dinner for folks if they call ahead and let her know. We called ahead on the VHF radio with a request for dinner for 44 not the usually 4 to 6. She was happy to fix the food and feed us but her little building was busitng at the seams. Even so a great time was had by all and new friends were made and new cruising partners gained.

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Terry
03/03/2008, Chat and Chill

This Hot Dog buzzed all the anchored boats then landed right in the anchorage. He then taxied between Us and the shore and proceeded to back the plane up to the beach in with all those dingies.

They went over to Chat and Chill had a drink and about 1/2 hour later they fired up and took off right from there thru all the anchored boats again.

We found out he is a local who owns one of the Islands and likes to fly in for a drink once and a while.

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