June is a funny time to travel in the Abacos weather wise. Most of the time it is sunny with light winds, but occasionally we get squalls come through that dump a load of rain and blow us about a bit. The storm clouds are easy to pick out. In […]
Monthly archives: June 2014
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Time to say goodbye to the Island of Eleuthera and my favourite Bahamian anchorage, so far, Egg Island. There has been little or no wind for the last few days, but we will have to ‘bite the bullet’ and waste some fuel to continue North. Our plans are to head up […]
We lifted anchor at Annie’s Bight early in the morning to catch a ‘favourable’ tide through Current Cut and the Northern end of Eleuthera Island. There was barely a breath of wind and the Bight of Eleuthera was like a swimming pool. A crystal clear 4m deep swimming pool! Our […]
Eleuthera Island was once a major exporter of pineapples. Although tourism has now taken over as their major industry, they still celebrate this heritage in the form of an annual Pineapple Festival in Gregory Town in the first week of June. We were not far away, and it was the […]
We need to keep heading north, so we said goodbye to Hatchet Bay in search of an anchorage near the Glass Window Bridge. Back out through the tight rock cut and back into the protected sailing in Eleuthera’s shallow Bight. We were told by locals that we could not leave […]
The humans heard there was a large bat cave a few miles from the anchorage at Hatchet Bay. They did not hear whether it had a good beach for me. But we headed North again. We left behind Governor’s Harbour and threaded our way through lots more crab pots. The […]