Staying On

We had planned to sail from George Town to Long Island yesterday morning. We changed our minds, though, after we heard about a change in the weather forecast  For the next week there will be three cold fronts causing the wind to clock around through the West each time. The forecast indicated that we would have two, possibly three episodes of strong SW wind.  There is not good protection from that direction in Long Island so we decided to stay in George Town for the time being. Yesterday morning we moved Breeze On about a mile across the harbor to be closer to town. We took the dinghy to the large dinghy dock behind Exuma Market. After we dumped our garbage in the back of the trash truck and stuffed our money through the truck’s partially open window, we went shopping. Exuma Market is under new management and is much better stocked than it used to be. We actually found fresh vegetables on the shelf. 

After shopping we returned to Breeze On and motored 4 1/2 miles further south in the harbor to Master’s Harbour where we plan to hunker down for the west winds. We were expecting mostly light east winds until Thursday when the wind is to shift to the west. However, this morning the wind picked up to 20-25 and caused waves to roll into the harbor. The wind has remained strong all day along with squalls and waves leading to rather unpleasant conditions. We hope it calms down soon. 

At least we have rainbows. 

George Town’s dinghy dock.