Listen to Sounds in the Bahamas
Turquoise waters. Christmas on beach with kid boats. Play Capture the Grinch. Alex leads group workouts on beach. Anchor chain wraps around large rocks. Lots of plane wrecks in shallow waters. Need machete to get through crystal clear mangrove water trail. Full of beautiful stingrays and turtles. Leon and Alex jump off cliff at Blue Hole. New Year’s Eve party on S/V Wisdom. Leave for remote anchorage. Morale low after not getting off boat or seeing other people for four days. Visit Atlantis Marina and Water Park in Nassau. Leon does every slide in park, including vertical drop ending in a tube surrounded by an aquarium of sharks. $15 heads of lettuce throughout Bahamas. Fun at “washing machine” in Shroud Cay. Ten hues of blue water at Warderick Wells. Huati highway trail at Warderick Wells full of spiders and Poison wood trees. Over a dozen manta rays gliding past our boat. A nurse shark comes to visit before Alex and Leon swim to shore. Gorgeous snorkeling at Aquarium near Cambridge Cay. Alex learns to ride friend’s hydrofoil bike at Big Majors. Run out of fuel in dinghy on way to Thunderball Grotto near Staniel Cay. Fortunately Eric is always prepared and knows what to do. Lots of hunkering down at various points for 30-50 knots winds. Spend weeks in Georgetown with boat friends. Drinks and inflatables at Coconut Club. Pig roast, volleyball, and rusty metal playhouses at Chat N Chill. Alex offers her “good enough” cuts to other cruisers. Listen to retirees on the marine radio net every morning. Figure out what day of the week barge delivers fresh food to supermarket. Wait for weather to head East to Dominican Republic.
