After three days and over 120 miles we arrived yesterday at Hog Cay in the Ragged Islands. It is as far south as we will go in the Bahamas. The photo below shows where we are—for those who don’t follow us on our Spot Tracker or Marine Traffic.
We used the water from the Sun Shower (top middle of photo) to wash everything that was soaked with saltwater earlier in the day.
Sunset at Flamingo Cay, Jumentos, Bahamas. We wouldn’t have minded if the squall had come our way to wash the salt off of the boat. It didn’t.
Sunrise at Flamingo Cay, Jumentos, Bahamas.
We had plenty of wind for sailing all three days. Since the wind was often further south of east than we expected we had a fair amount of upwind sailing. Of course, the wind also meant we had waves. We were bashing into some and, on the second day, some were breaking over the beam of the boat, soaking us and everything in the cockpit. Once we anchored at Flamingo Cay we spent some time doing our best to wash the salt water off of the cockpit, cushions, pillows, ourselves, and our clothes.
There were two other boats at Hog Cay when we arrived yesterday and one other boat joined us later in the afternoon. It is quite windy today and forecast to remain windy for the next week. Most boats are hunkered down wherever they are so we don’t expect any other boats to join us this week. It is tradition at Hog Cay for cruisers to gather at the tiki hut at four pm for sundowners and that is what we all did last evening.
We used the water from the Sun Shower (top middle of photo) to wash everything that was soaked with saltwater earlier in the day.
Sunset at Flamingo Cay, Jumentos, Bahamas. We wouldn’t have minded if the squall had come our way to wash the salt off of the boat. It didn’t.
Sunrise at Flamingo Cay, Jumentos, Bahamas.
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