Spanish Wells

The winds were forecast to continue shifting—from the SE to the S to the SW to the W to the NW. While we had a very comfortable night at The Bluff Settlement anchorage, we knew it would become uncomfortable as the wind shifted. We had intended to go back to Meek’s Patch—this time on the W side—but then George had the brilliant idea that we should pick up a mooring ball in the protected Spanish Wells harbor. I immediately liked the idea. We would be comfortable from every wind direction and, best of all, we could easily get off of the boat. 

Once we had picked up our mooring ball we went to shore to pay for two nights and buy 5 gallons of fuel at Pinder’s Supermarket. Later we went to shore again for lunch at the Shipyard. 

View from our table at The Shipyard. 

Early this morning we could hear what sounded like a boat using either its engines or bow thrusters to turn. We looked out and saw it was the Grand Master II turning around adjacent to the mooring field. From our perspective it was quite close to a couple of the boats, but they pulled it off masterfully. 

A little later, as we were getting into our dinghy to go ashore, we saw dolphins jumping right beside the ship. By the time I got my phone to take a photo they had stopped jumping and calmly swam by our dinghy.