Hawk's Nest to New Bight, Cat Island

Left Hawk's Nest marina for New Bight, we are in an anchorage at the base of the "highest mountain in the Bahamas" which is not all that high, but it has a nice little monastery called The Hermitage atop it. The anchorage and settlement are very peaceful and very empty...

Grant dipping his feet in the water at the end of the New Bight government dock. Parallax in distance.

The settlement at New Bight has a fuel station and a grocery store (all in one), so we replenished sugar and flour and eggs and the enormous local onions.

seriously large onions

Heading to Little San Salvador island tomorrow, which is off the coast of Cat and plays host to cruise ships.

More pictures on this and prior posts when I can.

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Vessel Name:	Parallax
Vessel Make/Model:	37' Prout Snowgoose (1982)
Hailing Port:	Pensacola
Crew:	Derek, Heather and Grant
About:	Two astronomers, looking for variable stars and adventure. After cruising the Caribbean aboard S/V Paradox for 18 months in the early 90s, the crew swallowed the anchor and had a child, always planning their next Great Adventure: cruising under sail with Grant, showing him the world. [...] More
Extra:	We knew that if we ever got a catamaran, we'd want a name to celebrate her twin-hulledness. Parallax is seeing the same thing from two slightly different points of view, which with our two eyes is what gives humans our depth perception. It's also a good metaphor for one of the benefits of marriage. [...] It is also one way astronomers find the distances to nearby stars -- only in that case, the baseline is not our eyes' separation, but the diameter of Earth's orbit! More