Windancer IV: SailBlogs

Final Days

Ziggy MacKenzie — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:35:39 -0500

Let me preface this with a simple caveat...I have had a few Bahamian rums and am listening to some of my favorites, from Jonnie Mitchell singing Both Sides Now to Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline to Rufus Wainwrights's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. (Continued...)

Thunderball Cave

Jenny MacKenzie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:39:05 -0500

Have you ever seen the James Bond movie Thunderball? Well, I have and I have also been to the cave that is named after it. On the 3rd of June we arrived in Staniel Cay the home of the famous cave and anchored in 10 feet of water. We noticed a building that in big red letters said Club Thunder Ball. We asked where the cave was and they told us to go to the closest rock and you will see a buoy. So we did that and around the corner was another boat and a buoy. We tied up and Connor jumped in. As soon as he was in 150 fish swarmed him. Next dad jumped in and opened a pack of crackers and they all moved from Connor to dad. They where so close you could touch them. The fish where wild and all attacked the cracker at once. I had never seen so many fish in one place before. There were sargeant majors, parrot fish, angel fish, grouper, snapper and even an eel. (Continued...)

SWIMMING WITH THE WORLD’S GREATEST PREDATOR

Connor MacKenzie — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:31:20 -0500

With three bags in tow, Dad and I boarded the pink and white bus idling outside Atlantis. Written on the side in large letters was "Stuart Cove". Stuart Cove 's Dive Bahamas is a dive company situated on the Southwest side of New Providence. We rode for the better part of 45 minutes until we arrived at a large complex that is Stuart Cove's Dive center. Stuart Cove's has worked on numerous TV shows and movies including the James Bonds For Your Eyes Only, Never Say Never Again, The World Is Not Enough, and Casino Royale, as well as Mythbusters, 20 000 Leagues Under The Sea, and Flipper. Open Water was filmed here and coincidently Dad and I were going on a dive boat to swim with sharks. (Continued...)