Feb. 8: Headed over to Elbow Cay and anchored in Lighthouse Bay. Great anchorage except for the parade of small boats passing by. Fortunately after sunset the wakes subside.
Feb. 10: Anchored opposite Tiloo Pond. Found a path over to the ocean side. Ouch! Nasty coral with no real beach. The white blotches are parts of a boat that must have broken up off this coast years ago.
Plovers taking refuge inside Tiloo Pond.
Also in the pond – what is very typical here, unfinished docks leading to nowhere.
Feb. 11: Sunset off Guana Cay. Looks like the sun is winking at us as it sets.
Feb. 12: Anchored off Shell Cay which is actually a “Spoil” Island – created when a channel was dredged for the freighters.
And indeed – lots of teeny tiny shells! I had the good fortune to walk completely around the island without seeing one other person – or footsteps for that matter:
At the conclusion of the walk I then had to wade out quite a bit (low tide) so Bob could retrieve me in the dinghy.
Today’s bounty.
Feb. 13: Back in port to have some engine work done (problems with our inverter and generator). The mechanic’s son (Liam) was quite charming. (Problems mainly solved BTW).
Feb. 14: Early morning at the marina.
Briefly explored this small island on our way over to Treasure Cay.
Via dinghy we saw this eagle ray.
Scenes of Treasure Cay beach.
Feb. 15: Had lunch at Coco’s Bar on Treasure Cay beach. Noticed this high school class room having their art class and lunch. Sign me up!
One of the students let me take a picture of her and her art work in progress. Sadly we began to learn of the details of the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School. Seems so surreal that something so horrific could be happening so close to us.
Back to the boat we found these minnows on our swim platform. This represents the most and largest fish we have ever caught.
Leaving Treasure Cay at low tide is not always a great idea since the shoal comes out into the channel.
Anchored off Man-O-War Cay with a mega yacht (Entourage).
Feb. 16: Mega Yachts Endurance and Allessandra in our front yard in the morning.
Palm trees in our backyard – which was supposed to be our front yard. Weather prediction was east which made anchoring off M-O-W Cay a good bet. But of course we awoke to west winds putting us on a lee shore. Fortunately the winds were minimal.
Back at our marina I finished up an art project of making turtles for our granddaughters who will arrive tomorrow. The seed pods were given to me by Riva’s fiancee Tom. These pods traveled all the way from the Amazon and wind up along the coast line of Fort Lauderdale. All I had to do was add some pepper seed and sea glass for eyes. Can’t wait for the Malcom family to arrive!
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