Beginning our return trip

It’s been a busy couple of days. Well, busy is relative. We enjoyed our stay in Georgetown and if we didn’t need to get back to Nassau we would have stayed who knows how long. The marina was very nice with some very super folks. It’s amazing that the boat that called me on Friday about conditions and then decided to wait for Saturday showed up and we became great friends. A wonderful couple that we will hopefully see again.

We left Georgetown on Tuesday. I only remember because there was a happy hour at the marina Monday. We sailed up to Little Farmers Cay. It was a downwind sail with following seas so it wasn’t too bad. We made it through the cut as easily as we made it out and anchored in about 7’ of water where we would spend 2 nights. After anchoring and getting set we dinghied in to Ty’s Sunset Bar and Grill for dinner. We each had the rib dinner. What great ribs. The meat fell off the bone and we caught up on internet.

The next day we went back in to town to see what was there. We found a local fisherman who had not been out fishing but he had some conch so we bought 2 large conch for dinner and headed back to Ty’s. At Ty’s we got caught up on internet and then headed back to the boat. After a quick lunch we snorkeled around the boat. We found many starfish including one huge one that must have been about 16”across. We also found some real conch, tridents and a nasty crab who kept attacking me when I got close.

But the coolest thing was this little fish who came to me as soon as I got in and then followed me around everyplace we went. When I dove down to the bottom he went right along and then back up to the surface. Occasionally he swam over to Linda but he always came back to me. It was a pretty yellow, black and white striped guy about an inch or two long. Not sure what it was but I need to look it up.

Today we sailed to Bitter Guana Cay and had another exciting event. With the wind mostly behind us I put up our spinnaker for the first time. I didn’t want to put it up offshore with the rocking and bigger wind. But we got it up and flew. We were running mostly between 6-7 kts with 10-15 kts of wind without the main sail. The sail is huge and a lot to douse when the time came. But, with today’s experiences we will do it again and then all the way to Nassau. What a beautiful run.

Once we got to Bitter Guana Cay we went ashore and saw the protected Bahama iguanas. They ae very rare and not like other iguanas. The signs say not to feed the iguanas but they came right up to us looking for food. In fact one almost attacked us because we didn’t have any food. There is nothing on the island since this a preserve but there is an 85’ Oyster parked to our starboard with a rowdy bunch of folks. But we leave in the morning for Shroud Cay and a 30 mile spinnaker run and hopefully some secluded beaches.