When you last left the adventurers, they were stuck in Bimini waiting on weather to go south to Gun cay and eventually to Chub cay across the Bahama banks. A lot has transpired since…
Peter, Sam and David in Gun Cay
We made it to Gun cay and anchored in a lovely spot on the west side of the island. The wind was behaving nicely from the East and was calm when we arrived. We got on our snorkeling gear and Sam and Peter went to look for “something to kill”. David donned his gear on for the second time in his life and looked apprehensive before jumping in. He and I swam around the anchor and noted that it was laying on it’s side, hmm. David attempted to set it by hand, no go. David noted that even if our anchor dragged we would end up in the ocean, so we abandoned that task and went exploring. There were numerous rock ledges to explore and the fish were beautiful. David’s face was lit up with excitement! He even thanked me for making him snorkel. Sam and Peter couldn’t find anything to kill, but saw an enormous grouper. We had a lovely meal of ground turkey and rice….then the swells came. I got no sleep that night, it felt like my boat was beating itself to death. We left for Chub Cay in the morning, planning to motorsail across the banks. There was no sail in the motorsail. We motored for 10 hours, argh. We anchored at Russell Beacon light for the night, had pork loin that someone gave us in Bimini and another swelly night, albeit better than the night before. Motoring east in the east breeze, we made it to Chub cay around 1pm. In the dinghy to be towed around by Peter, we explored Mama Rhodes rock. Peter taught us how to kill stuff, two lobsters were his prize. It seemed amazingly easy.
David and Peter getting ready to kill something
Peter killing lobsters
The kill
We anchored, we drug, we left chub cay at 3:30 am, the rest are just details. Poor Peter was left a “Dear John” letter thrown into his cockpit. We motored for a while until dawn, then set sail for New Providence/Nassau. Nassau accepted it’s transients at around 1:30 pm. We have been at Nassau Yacht Haven for 2 days now. Security is tight. Well, not really they just look tough. I am scared for my life and boat. I am sleeping better with the air conditioning on (noise background). Of note, Sam and David bought a three pronged spear thingy to get us fed. David got the outboard fixed yesterday for a mere 200 bucks.
We got all of our “work” done yesterday so today was a play day. The extravagantly beautiful Atlantis on Paradise Island wooed us today. We knew better than to go there, but the shininess of it was unavoidable. The cost ended up being insignificant due to David’s winnings in the casino (I knew I brought him along for something). We had a blast and are back in the boat, David reading, Sam playing xbox and me writing in my blog.
We are hopefully leaving for Allen’s Cay tomorrow and will be out of contact for a couple of days to a week. My mom listed the SPOT address in my last blog as a comment if you are interested.
Lessons learned:
Don’t go to Atlantis without a decent gambler or without buying a “package deal”
Wear earplugs and plug in (to electricity) when you can to get some sleep
Going down the “leap of faith” waterslide does take a leap of faith, very scary, I might have been the oldest mom who went down the slide
