The anchorage at Fishers Bay

Last night started to cool down from the cold front that went through yesterday. It got down to 64 degrees last night!! Brrrr. But then I heard from Chris Parker on the SSB weather net that the temp in Lakeland Florida was near freezing this morning. I guess it's not so bad here after all. Leaving Hope Town we saw depths as low as 6.5 feet and our draft is 6 feet. Not tooooo bad unless you consider that we were less than an hour from high tide. Ugh! To charge the batteries fully we just motored north to Guana Cay about 2 hours and dropped anchor in Fishers Bay. When we arrived, there were probably another 8 boats in the anchorage. By nightfall there were probably 20+. (Most likely gathering for tomorrow's pig roast at Nippers.) Once the anchor seemed set, we dinghy's ashore to checkout the settlement in Orchid Bay and then onto Nippers. Not much has changed since I was last here - Orchid Bay resort is very nice, the Atlantic beach is nice, but there's not much of a town here.
Tomorrow morning we'll start preparing the boat for the roughly 15 hour sail to Egg island and then into Spanish Wells (stow gear, make midnight snacks, plot course and enter into chart plotter and laptop, secure dinghy motor, etc). We'll leave tomorrow evening going out the cut to the ocean just a little before sunset. That should get us to Egg island by about 9am Monday morning.