We had a very settled night last night in our protected bay, much in contrast to the really unsettled night that our Canadian friends had who stayed in the exposed bay further north. The VHF radio this morning was full of people complaining about unexpected west winds, wobbly anchorages and a bad night’s sleep. Glad we keep going for better. Quite a few boats gathering around the island for the festivities including Bahamas skiff racing.

Little Farmers Cay is a very refreshing place to stop. Much more down to earth after the glamour of Staniel Cay. We understand that only descendants of the original residents can own land and property on the island so that stops outside forces developing the place. There is a nice memorial to the original owner (an emancipated slave) and her descendants in the middle of the island.

We walked the length and breadth of the island, which is not that difficult as it is fairly small, but we got our 10,000 steps in. We saw a couple of tourist boats heading in and realised that the attraction here is turtles. It seems they breed locally and one of the bays has a lot of really big loggerhead(?) turtles swimming around in it. They are really tame and you can swim with them. In fact give them some food and you can get up real close – as we saw with some visitors. The sharp eyed will note that that is a remora stuck on the turtle’s tummy and not any other form of large dangly appendage. We were wondering about the ethics of turtle tourism but the turtles seemed to be very happy, were enjoying some fresh conch and are very protected to breed and thrive in the area so OK? What do our readers think?