We stayed two nights at anchor Between the Majors and then moved north to Shroud Cay. As we approached that anchorage, another boat put out the word on the radio that they were looking for a jack. Dan replied that he had one. The people from Cher-Ed (pronounced 'shared') Adventures immediately came over to borrow it once we'd set the anchor. Tirns out we'd met them last year here in the Exumas. Dan and I set out to do some snorkeling and when we returned, the jack was neatly laid on a bit of carpeting on our back deck, along with two beers. Whatever they needed to fix, we think they accomplished it.
Sunday night (Feb 25) was a rolly night at Shroud Cay. We were glad to haul anchor right after breakfast and head east to Eleuthera. Monday's wind was quite tame compared to what we'd been experiencing, and crossing the deep water was a very pleasant cruise. Dan set out a fishing line on each side, righing up an alert line of floats that would clatter to the deck when the fishing pole had a fish. We had a couple false alarms - lots of clatter, but no fish on the hook - and then we got one! Dan caught a skipjack tuna.
We got to Rock Sound, at the southern end of Eleuthera late afternoon. We had grilled tuna for dinner as we watched the sunset.
Today (Tues Feb 27) we went ashore to explore a little. We were here eight years ago. There is a beautiful big pier now with plenty of room for dinghies. We walked down the road to the Cathedral Caves for a self-guided tour, something we had not done last time. We spent a little more walking through town and visiting the blue hole which is right in town, next to the elementary school. 
We'll probably spend tomorrow here too, and hike across the island to the ocean side for a beach walk. We'll move up to a more protected bay on Eleuthera when the winds pick back up later in the week.
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