Ray of the Day
18 January 2019 | Hawksbill Cay, Exumas, Bahamas
Catching up on a couple of days. We are now out of phone data range again, so are using the satellite to get stuff out â�" hence the frugality of bi-daily blogs. You can take the boy out of Scotland, but you can't take Scotland out of the boy.
From Highbourne Cay we moved on to the north end of Shroud Cay for a dinghy visit into the mangroves and over to Driftwood Beach on the ocean side. A nice turtle spotted in the mangroves. Quite a few boats using the very shallow water north anchorage including Chandelle â�" had a quick catch up and Ailie met the live-aboard cats.
We woke today to a really beautiful Bahamanian morning with a cloudless sky and a warm breeze. G and Ailie snorkelled a couple of the nearby coral heads â�" some good fish were spotted and we had a visit from a friendly stingray. Then we took a drive by of Pearl of Penzance, an aluminium Garcia owned and sailed by Pete Goss (bit of a sailing rock star). She was sitting just to the south of us and is friends of friends. Then it was time for a short downwind sail down to Hawksbill Cay and a trip ashore for a walk over the coral island â�" winding through the thick jungly vegetation and across the jagged shore-side rocky outcrops, to the plantation ruins in the north. It is pretty special when you are the only boat in a sandy bay and you step ashore on a deserted white sand beach â�" all alone. And then the charter cat arrives in the bay and decides it needs to run its generator for hours â�" why? But all has been made better by a perfect sunset.