…And the East wind, and the South wind, and tomorrow, the West wind.
Since we’ve arrived in the Bahamas over a week ago, we’ve only had a handful of days where the wind wasn’t blowing over 15 knots, and no days when it wasn’t blowing at all.
We spent four days at Bird Cay, and then moved to a different anchorage about five miles north, off Cockroach Cay, where we stayed three more days. The wind blew anywhere from 15 to 25 knots, changing direction from NE to SE, and was quite often pretty gusty. We did manage to snorkel a little in both anchorages, but there’s little to see beyond grass, sand, and the occasional starfish. We half swam, half slogged through a foot of water to get to the beach on Cockroach for a walk. Good exercise! Otherwise we occupied our time with boat chores. Tommie got some good lap time!
Yesterday (Fri. Jan 26) we took advantage of a lull in the winds and made a lumpy passage south to Rose Island, just east of Nassau. Here we had nice snorkel on some nearby coral heads to gaze at the fish. I even spotted a small octopus!
Today we set off for the Exumas. It had to be today or wait til midweek, so we set off into the lumpy sea once more. We only had a 25-ish mile passage, but it was the roughest we’ve encountered in a long time. 15-18 knots of SE wind and 4-7 foot waves right on the nose. We took a pounding. We got to Allan Cay at about 1:00 pm and and anchorage never looked so good! There are six other cruisers here, and a local fisherman whose industrious fish cleaning is attracting sharks. We plan to be here for the next few days while the winds ramp back up and clock around through the SW to the NW. Hoping those sharks stay interested in the slurry from that fisherman, so we can do some snorkeling and exploring around here.
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