We’ve made it to the Bahamas!!!!!!!!!!

I know it’s been awhile, ok so an entire week! And we haven’t updated anything or even said that we’re here!

But we just finally got somewhere where we could access the internet though iffy and only for a minute or two. We crossed over last Saturday evening, heading out a day earlier than expected. We had the weather, the energy, and thought, why wait another day? Weather only changes more frequently then and we didn’t want to get stuck in Fort Pierce. Because we had the wind on our nose the whole way, it took us much longer than expected, and was a little bouncier at first. Surprisingly the Gulf wasn’t that bad. We came into the Bahamas the next morning and crossed that beautiful line between navy blue Atlantic to turquoise blue Bahamas! We only made it to Mangrove Cay because of our time delay, which it was fine by us. We’re on island time now!! We spent the night there and then headed over to Great Sale Cay the next day. We tried to sail it, but the winds were way too light, so we decided that we better motor to make some headway. We stayed at Great Sale for an extra day to wait out a cold front that was coming through, bringing with it some substantial winds and light rain. Dad and I even tried swimming a little bit! Fancy that! A bathing suit in January! We told Mom to join us, and she promptly told us that we had lied, the water was cold! Well, we thought it was warm, especially when thinking back to the water back up in VA. We made it over to Hawksbill Cay the next day (near Foxtown) and then tried to clear customs in Spanish Cay. We had a really nice sail today! It felt great to stretch those sails out and cut the motor noise. The customs agent was sick and so we had to backtrack to Allans-Pensacola Cay to stay for the night. Mom was a little disappointed at being in the Bahamas and not being able to fish yet. There were other cruisers who were out and about in their dingies and one brought back fresh caught conch for dinner. We salivated and were extremely jealous. We had a hard time anchoring at Allans-Pensacola in the sand, and Dad had to go handset it (ie swim) but it was beautiful and the water not too cold. Yesterday we have made it to Spanish Cay to check-in! Mom can fish now! And we can step on land for the first time in 7 days. Boy that was a weird experience. Spanish Cay is a privately owned island, but also has a customs check-in. We have not been to an island yet where we can purchase anything, and couldn’t have anyway, since we couldn’t get off the boat until yesterday.

We made it to Green Turtle Cay today after staying at Powell Cay yesterday. We are moored on a ball next to some of our friends we met back at Great Sale Cay and are happy for the company. There are several other boats moored here as well and I am sure we will get a chance to meet some of them. Green Turtle is a great place for protection and we are expecting another big storm in a day or so. It also has a little town that we can wander around, but we haven’t gotten to yet.

It’s beautiful here and we are having a wonderful time so far. Pictures and more descriptions will have to follow later.

Good weather and Happy Sailing!