We Done Reach!

 

 

We got through the inlet about 2pm and motored with all the sails up.  We noticed a sloop off our starboard bow and figured we would have company for the night.  We check in with St. Jude and the Do-Dah Nets when offshore for position reports on the SSB (single side band) as both Rob & I have our General (Ham) Radio Licenses.  When checking in we discovered that the boat near us were Tom & Sandy on Anania, nice folks we had not seen for awhile.  It was a great crossing.  We turned off the engine and cruised along anywhere from 4.5 to 7 knots.  The moon was full and it was like a streetlight was on for us.  Luckily the containership traffic was light and we had no cause to call any via the AIS.  The AIS is an Automated Identification System.  When you call the huge ships and give an approximate location they just ignore you.  When you call them by name they answer in a heartbeat as all of channel 16 is recorded by the USCG. 

Twenty seven point 4  hours later we dropped the hook at Crab Cay.  Most people stop at Great Sale Cay but it was early in the day and we knew we should keep going until late afternoon.  We were glad we did as the sky turned very dark over Great Sale about 4:30pm.  We had some light sprinkles but we spoke with people who had stopped at Great Sale and they got hammered!  We had a well deserved meal, some wine and went to sleep before 8pm! 

The next morning we started off for White Sound on Green Turtle Cay.  Got in shortly after noon, cleaned up and off to Immigration to clear in and be legal!  The young lady was so very nice at Immigration.  When she asked us a question regarding our "Fishing Permit" Rob asked her if she would change it to a "Catching Permit".  I really do not think she had heard that one before by the way she laughed.  We saw Four Aces (West Palm folks) as we were checking in and then met up with Bobby & Francie for a Goombay Smash at The Blue Bee and lunch at McIntosh's. 

              

 

This pretty much sums it up!

The next day we ladies decided to walk the beach and we had a blast!  Sandy-Anania, Madeline-Chanceux, Francie-Barefootin' and me.

                           

                                              Sandy, Madeline & Francie                                                                                                                Beach Treasures

Well, it was time to move on so off we went around The Whale & into Fishers Bay.  Those of you who have followed us may remember that last spring do to transmission failure from an incorrect damper plate provided we had to "sail the whale".  That would have been impossible under the conditions we had - wind direction- and there were some nice sized rollers but all in all, not too bad.

We went over the dune to Nippers and split a Conch Burger & a Grouper Burger so we each had half!  While sitting with our lunch we met a couple that was vacationing in a rental home. The man asked what kind of boat we had and it turns out that their son had a Pearson 365 too.  His was the first blog I ever read and it was quite sad that according to the blog the wife left him for someone else.  It turns out that was not the case!  TMI!  What are the chances that of all the people in the world, we would met them at Nippers!  Fishers Bay was a bit rolly so today we are off to either Hopetown or Tahiti Beach.

Here are some Nipper Pics!

                                 

·        Whew, up to date!

Later!