Going Home

Well the wind doesn't seem to want to either ease of or not blow from the North so we motored the 5 miles up to Bitter Guana Cay. Mezz had read that there were Iguanas on the beach so this was a "Must go" destination. We anchored in close to the beach and took the RIB in for a look with some goodies for the natives. There were boats coming down from Staniel Cay with tourists to look at the iguanas and they had food too. There were plenty there and of a good size. We had spied a cave further away from the tourists as we dropped anchor so walked around the point and down to the cave on our own. There were a couple of large specimens one of which that charged us aggressively and stopped a metre or so away. Mezz threw some pieces of apple on the ground in front of it and they were soon preoccupied with the food. We took some pictures to remember the encounter and then set off for Staniel Cay. We have had some concerns about the motors since splashing in St Kitts as a Heat Exchanger on one of the motors was badly corroded and in jeopardy of leaking. It became a bit of a saga as we ordered one online in St Kitts to arrive in St Martin while we were there which incurred a hefty postage fee from UPS. It turned out to be the wrong part. The seller had put the wrong part number on it in error. This meant we continued on our journey with the real possibility we could be down to one motor until a replacement part could be sourced. I had been watching one on Ebay in New York but getting it was the problem. We could only ship to a US address. We got around this by sending it to "Watermakers Air" in Ft Lauderdale and had them fly it to Georgetown, Exuma (for $45). To cut a long story short Watermakers Air left it in Florida and we missed it in Georgetown so they flew it to Staniel Cay and this is where we were finally going to get our part... Yay!!!
We arrived in Staniel Cay and dropped the pick for a busy day or so. After going ashore and picking up our package we went shopping for bread and "fresh" milk. On our walking around we met a lovely couple Keith and Jeannie and their son Tim from Albuquerque and ended up back at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club for drinks with them for St Patricks Day. The yacht club feed Nurse Sharks just in front of the bar for the tourists and we took some great photos and video of the feeding. We retired early and prepared to fuel the next morning at the Yacht Club and head to Thunderball Grotto (about 300 metres away).