Yearly archives: 2014

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 […]

As you know, I like a good ‘swimming’ beach. So I got the humans moving North again in the hopes they will find me one along the way. Next stop Governor’s Harbour.  The weather had settled, but we still got hit by the edge of one squall and ran into […]

We are still anchored up at Rock Sound.  My least favourite beach in the Caribbean.  But I hate the rain more then I do the pebbly beach here. The humans just started listening, after recommendations from other cruisers, to Chris Parker  (SSB 4045MHz).  He offers a more detailed weather forecast of the […]