Great Lakes Sailing

Sinclair Cove

7/1/2008

Today was Isak's 16th birthday and our exploration day. From the launching ramp in the bottom of the bay, we made the short walk to what we later would call the lower parking lot where the trail starts to go over to the native American pictographs. This trail is rated difficult, but proved to be "doable". About a quarter of a mile down the path, the trail forked off to the right which lead us to the top of the massive cliff that forms the western part of the cove. This gave us a great "photo-opp" of our boat in the cove below.

Back on the main trail, we continued through the mosquito infested woods and finally reached the pictographs. Although simple in form, it was amazing to realize that these might be 400 years old. Upon leaving the area, we discovered a different path through some interesting rock formations that lead to a parking lot complete with composting toilets and garbage disposal. It's amazing how you come to appreciate the simple things in life. Soon we realized that one of the roads leaving the parking lot lead down to the boat launch and the aforementioned "lower" parking lot. This information wasn't described in any of the cruising literature.

We dinked over to sunny spot on the lee side of some big rocks for lunch, then returned to the boat for showers, laundry and dinner prep. The water here was too icy for even the kids to swim. Later, while we were eating dinner, two other sailboats came in. Both of them initially began to anchor too close to us; one boat moved to the east after I "looked him off", however, the second boat persisted and I had to go up on the bow and explain to him that although I was using two anchors in the Bahamian system if the wind shifted to the northwest, I'd be on top of him if he anchored there. He eventually moved deeper into the cove.