March 30 - 31, Abacos

Leaving Marsh Harbor on the high tide, we are making our way toward the Gulf Stream, a couple days west of here.





Tonight, we anchored off Green Turtle Cay, in the Sea of Abaco, and spent a peaceful night – with the exception of someone’s pet cockatoo, which squawked all night long. Oh the sound of nature (not Abaco’s nature!).

Rising early in the morning, we were off to Great Sale Cay (that’s right, sale, not sail – no idea why!). The day was drizzly on and off – very unusual, as in our three months in the Bahamas, we can count the number of rainy days on one hand!

The rain let up enough for us to get the anchor down, and Martha got out her fishing pole, after reading in the cruising guide about mangrove snapper in the bay. In spite of chumming with chicken fat and conch entrails, and lots of casting about, she was not successful in her quest. So we barbequed steaks and settled in for what ended up being a bouncy night, as the winds swung farther to the west than predicted. Because of the “water music” (the noise the water makes against the hull and inside our fresh-water tank) we were up early and under way to West End, Grand Bahama Island, which is the jumping off point for our traverse to Florida and the good old US of A.