I Began preparing Seawing for sea this morning just after 0800 (though most preparations were completed last night in anticipation of a morning departure). Today's plan is to sail for Shroud Cay, only about a half-day sail away.

Snorkeling at the Sea Aquarium was amazing; though I injured my knee getting back into the dingy and had to be taken to park HQ and then Staniel Cay for stitched by high-speed boat (fun ride).

Anchor finally weighed this morning at 0840 and underway. The day's sail was pretty uneventful.

A first glance, it looked like I'd need to be anchoring pretty far away from Shroud Cay, and we'd planned to go ashore. Upon closer examination, I found that it looked like there was a narrow band of water just deep enough to accommodate our five-foot draft, that opened up into a wider area where we could anchor, much closer-in ... just off the NW shore of Shroud Cay. We carefully and slowly motored in and found just as the chart indicated and anchored, in pretty shallow water. Directly in front of us was a very pretty, bit extremely tiny little beach. A little to the north, was a creek into the mangroves, that leads right through the cay to the ocean side for surf and one of the prettiest little beaches in the Caribbean.

Ben and I took the dingy and went blasting through the creek to the other side of the cay and then went back and after lunch, we all went to spend some time on the beach. Tide was dropping so while the trip through the creek was fine going out, but extremely shallow coming back ... we all walked pulling the dingy part of the way. It was nice to spend some beach-time.

We plan to sail for Nassau in the morning.