January 14 – January 19. We left Warderick Wells and sailed to Bell’s Island. The island is private. We didn’t go ashore, but Duwan was able to pirate an internet signal from a construction site there. Arg. I rowed over…
January 12 – January 13. Here we are at the Warderick Wells Land and Sea Park. This was the southernmost point of our trip last year. We were here at the end of April, so it’s satisfying to be this…
January 11. Don’t you love a surprise? Like, when you are dinking along a coastline looking at the endless limestone overhangs, stopping at one beach after another to find only sand, palm trees, and rocks, but no trails inland. Just…
January 8 – January 10. There are only a few bare inches under the keel of our boat. We float in a depthless hole of water. Although the wind has picked up, Blue Wing doesn’t swing on her chain or…
January 4 – January 7. There is a nice inviting sign with a palm tree and a sun surrounded by bright conch shells just off the airstrip at Norman’s Cay. One might think they had just landed in a lively…
Don’t you hate it when you’re parked safely in the wind shadow of some tiny islet, but the whole ocean is trying to rush by, making waves curl around the cay, bashing at you from the side? Boy, I do….
January 2 – January 3. As we motored towards the anchorage, I saw black spots on the beach. “Is that them?†I wondered in anticipation. As we got closer, they came into focus, ancient stoic faces, bitter hides of scales,…
We are slowly making our way down the Exuma island chain. Currently we are anchored off of Bell Island. This will be our last stop in our tour of the northern Exumas. We will turn to a new section in…
Ship Channel Cay January 1 – January 2. We are anchored on the side of an ancient sunken mountain of limestone. To the east, the very tops of the ridge of the mountain reach out of the water dotting the…
December 25 – December 31. We are in Rock Sound, Eleuthera. On Christmas day we left our anchorage off the western coast of Current Island in Eleuthera and headed east as the sun, blazing orange, was just sitting on the…
