Author: Cookies

We sailed to Allan’s cay about 12 miles. This island is famous for its large iguana. We did some drift dives and other snorkeling in this area and walked the beaches.

We sailed out early from staniel cay hoping to sail to Allen cay at 43 miles. The wind dropped to only 5 knots and we were only able to sail 25 miles in 10 hours. We have changed our sailing plans by a day to break up our two longer passages to reach the Abacos.

We spent the morning doing drift dives with good current in the Exumas cuts near staniel. We did some hiking on an island in the afternoon. The day before at little pipe we found several sharks under our anchored boat. staniel has an excellent cave dive that works during slack tide.

It’s been a week since we picked up mike at staniel airport so we are circling back toward staniel to drop him back off for a flight back to Seattle. We did a morning hike on an island and a few hours sailing before having dinner out at the staniel cay yacht club.

We sailed to OBrien cay for more snorkel and hiking.

We sailed Sunday to wardrick wells cay inside the park to snorkel and hike.

We spent a day at staniel cay in the Exumas staging ourselves to pick up our first guest mike on Sunday morning. We got some fuel and groceries and walked around this tiny town. On Sunday morning we picked up mike at the airport and proceeded to sail to Warderick cay inside the Exuma cays land and sea park – a large 20 x2 mile area of the Exumas island chain with protections for reefs and the islands for public use.

We sailed to Little pipe cay and infront of a $100 million dollar property that has its own 40 acre island. The tides rush thru between the islands here so we ended up doing drift snorkels and exploring and hiking other islands with the dingy. Amazing white beaches and turquoise waters that change colors from darker turquoise when deeper at high tide to very light cream colored water when only a foot deep at low tide. Sand bars appear and disappear over the course of the day.

Today we sailed 9 miles to compass cay and did a few drift snorkels and visited the famous bubble bath. The water is an amazing turquoise green blue and varies in color with different depths.

Today we did a 58 mile 10 hour passage from governors harbour to Hal’s pond cut. Winds were low at 10-15 and seas from 1-3 feet.

We arrived at this nice anchorage and right next to an empty beach. Another abandoned set of houses behind the beach.

Today we sailed the 10 miles to governors harbor and anchored in the quiet bay. We spent the day hiking to the Atlantic side and exploring all around this nice town. We grabbed fresh bakery items and visited an abandoned club med site.

Today we planned to sail to governors town but the wind direction, wind speed and 3-5 of swell and chop made it too difficult to sail that 20 miles. We found protection from the 30 knot winds in alabaster bay. It also seems to have little swell so the boat doesn’t roll.

We still sailed for 3 hours in a close haul in a very pitchy sea.

Tomorrow we plan to sail into governors town for a night.

Today we sailed 8 miles to hatchet bay for better protection from 30 plus knot winds and swells creating a very rolly anchorage.

This tiny harbor offers 360 protection. We sailed and motored and then walked around the town.

Today we hike to the famous glass window bridge. At this very narrow point of the Eleutheras island is a place where the Atlantic Ocean and huge swells and high winds come only 50 feet from reaching the calm and shallow and warm waters of the Eleutheras bay. We also snorkeled around the boat and walked the beaches at this anchorage.

Today we went thru the cut at current where water currents can be very strong from flooding or ebbing tides. We timed it and still we flew thru with an additional 3 knots of currents taking us thru at 9 knots.

We sailed about 16 miles to anchor at a nice protected beach.

Today we got up early and decided to cross about 50 miles of open Atlantic to reach another chain of Bahamas islands called the Eleutheras.

The sail took about 10 hours and 65 miles in total. The swells were 4-5 feet and wind 10-20.

Today we sailed from Tahiti beach to lynyard cay with a snorkel stop at sandy cay. We snorkeled here at lynyard and explored the island and started to clean the bottom of the boat.

Last night we grabbed a mooring buoy in hope town harbor to handle the high winds.

During the day we visited the light house and sailed down to the end of elbow key to snorkel and anchor.

Today we decided to grab a mooring buoy for the anticipated storm tonight inside hope town harbor. We pulled out our bikes and biked and explored the whole island. We did more swimming on the Atlantic side late in the afternoon.

Today we sailed from man o war to hopetown for another stop. We took the dingy to the town and walked around the town our the beach on the Atlantic to swim. In the evening we took another walk around the island.