We had a great rest last night and today we got together with Kokopelli to do some planning for the passage to Cuba. We have about 180 miles to go and are planning on leaving at 5:00am tomorrow morning. Chris Parker warned of stronger winds in the Windward passage between Cuba and Haiti, so we will try to get through that by the afternoon and then head west along the south coast of Cuba over night for a Monday arrival. If things go well we should be there by noon.

We went into town to check it out and found it very different than the other Bahamas islands. They had a fundraiser at the park, so we stopped for lunch and then walked around town. All the streets were paved and most of the houses were well kept. We saw 3 or 4 yards that were just beautiful with a bunch of flowers, trees and fancy fences. Probably some of the nicest yards I have seen anywhere in the Bahamas. Lots of huge trees that you just don't see on the other islands. They have a salt mining operation - we could see the mounds of salt from far away when sailing into port. They have huge flats that they pump the sea water into and during the summer the warm trade winds dry the flats out and then they go in and scoop up the salt. It employs most of the people in town and it shows. We also walked to a working light house out on the point and climbed up to the top - the view was spectacular and got some great pictures.

We will update the blog late tomorrow afternoon, if the seas are not to rough. If they are, I will probably puke all over the keyboard and that would not be good.....