about 4 inches long
too cute for words
mama and baby
our night stop
Saturday January 30, 2016
What a surprise when we hauled the anchor … 3 sea horses attached on our rode and chain. We mentioned this to the other boaters anchored with us and no one had the same experience ..
our friends on Te Amor that have been here for 18 years did not experience this .. and our good friends Paul and Sheryl Shard, on Distant Shores have never had this experience . so it looks like we are the one in a million!!!
Lagom and Andante left just about the same time for Rock Sound. Both sails up and engine off for the next 37 km, averaging 3.5 - 5.5 knots on the beam mostly …
we saw lots of stone crab pots to our STB side, and understand that the lines hang straight down and in the cribs are the stone crabs. They stay there to grow and when harvested, the crab lives. the fisherman just break off the one large claw and returns the crab, so the claw can grow back again… harvesting only one claw at a time.
We had 3 dolphins swimming at our bow, one was a baby, so probably two female adults
We sailed for 8 1/2 hours and where too tired to go a shore at 4pm
Sunday, January 31, 2016
our new/old friends on GRACE told us where to find good drinking water on the beach .. so around 9am we headed to the beach, a very un likely place to get drinking water,
we asked some locals and about the water and it turns out to be RO water, and it is free !!!!!, we filled 2 -5 gal jugs and then told our travelling boaters, and they filled up also.. thanks Rock Sound, Eleuthera
we went to the OCEAN HOLE only about 2 blocks away. It is saltwater
and is filled with tropical fish and turtles … no sharks and rays …
the locals and scuba divers swim here .. Joe and I are too chicken.
okay the
Ocean Hole is a true nature blue hole that is a salt water inland lake.
It is said to be bottom less by native islanders. Jaques Cousteau tried unsuccessfully to find the holes connection to the ocean … but talking to Canadian scuba divers from Fort McMurray, Edmonton, dye was put into the ocean hole on the out going tide and from a helicopter they saw the exit and entrance . the hole is over 600 ft deep
we had Lagom (mike) and Andanti (andrew), single handlers, over for drinks and snacks at 4:30, they stayed until 8:30.
we talked a lot and reviewed charts and then I offered freshly made rum/coconut cake and their eyes light up.
Monday Feb 1, 2016
Joe up and listened to Chris Parker on the SSB for the weather report. Then we headed to the other dinghy dock, closer to the grocery store, bank, liquor, hardware store.
the Scotia Bank closed 1 1/2 years ago, but we managed to get $600 cash out of a Bahaman ATM … everything thing down here is cash, no visa or debit
back to the boat then off again with the iPad to renew the data plan. i already paid it forward, and when we got to the office the women gave us some issues … since this is an iPad not a phone … they wanted us to buy a phone so i could preload it our selves … phones you can dial something and down load your already paid minutes …
I mentioned that in Marsh Harbour the attendants take my tiny card and put it in there own phone and do the down loading … then put back onto my iPad …
well thank goodness one of the women there was kind ,, she did it for us
we then went to Sammy's Restaurant with table clothes and real glasses and good wifi. I worked for 2 hours getting caught up on the blog.
eating chicken wings and fries, Joe had Bahanian mac and cheese.
Joe headed out to buy gas for the dinghy and bread yeast .. Looks like I will be making bread on the boat. this should be interesting.
it was starting to rain, so we took the computers back to the boat, then headed back to the beach for more RO water.
it only rained enough to collect water for the dishes …
I made Cassava Curry or supper, a Bahamian root crop vegetable, it turned out great.
we need to return to this place there is so much more to see
tomorrow we head to the Exumas
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