They hope that this will put us in a good position for a longer sail tomorrow up around Powell Point, through the sandbars (Davis Channel) and into Rock Sound. They hope, with the light winds, the small hop today will knock off a few hours from tomorrows sail. We had […]
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The humans can never sit still. Off they are again, dragging me to a new and wondrous place. The destination this time in Rock Sound Harbour. So we are sailing up the south west coast of Eleuthera Island, around Powell Point…. And through the shifting sands of Davis Channel. Besides […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]