We had a great and super fast week with Caroline! We visited Chat and Chill, snorkelled a few reefs, swam with a large barracuda, relaxed on the beach and had some awesome dinners, both on and off the boat! I think Caroline got the full George Town experience and I know we all had a blast. I was wonderful to,have Caroline onboard and now I can’t wait until Cuba because both Evelyn and Caroline (and hopefully Ethan) are hoping to join us for a week.
Now it’s time to leave George Town and head for Cuba via the Jumentos and Ragged Island. Today we are buying more food etc for the remainder of our trip because getting good food in Cuba can be a bit of a challenge. We’ve enjoyed our time here but are looking forward to seeing new places and sailing a bit.
We will have wifi for a bit longer but will also be switching back to the inreach when we are out of range of the BTC cell towers.
We said see ya later to Mike and Jill on Mojo.Caroline really rocks those snorkel goggles! Crimson Kathryn is in the harbour just off of George Town.Chillaxing at EYC Blu – a restaurant that overlooks the harbour.
We had a plan when we arrived early to George Town. We were going to check out the area, maybe go as far as Long Island. So far we have moved a grand total of 4 knots! We moved closer to town so we could do laundry without getting soaked (well more soaked) on our dinghy ride in. From there we moved to Monument Beach for one night and then we went all the way down to Man of War Cay and ended up spending 2 nights anchored by Red Shanks Cay.
We’re back at Sand Dollar Beach and just had our first rain since we arrived here. Always love a bit of rain because it washes off some of the salt we’ve accumulated on everything. It gets awefully hot in the boat though, especially this time because I was making more banana bread!
Here’s a few more photos of the area. Only 8 more days before Caroline arrives!
This is Monument Beach which is a little further north from Sand Dollar.Red Shanks Cay – a very calm anchorage.Sunset at Red Shanks – April 5. Finally some rain! April 7Lovely! The happy sailors!
It’s hard to believe that we have been travelling on the water now for 7 weeks and we’re in George Town! It’s been an amazing journey from Bimini to here and we still have the Raggeds and Cuba to go before we head home and then back to the USA.
Reflecting on this first cruising experience, I can say that this is an incredible way to live. I think I mentioned this earlier but it’s worth repeating- life is so simple. You think about wind, water, food, and of course, emptying those pesky black water tanks! We listen to Chris Parker, our weather guru, at the ungodly hour of 6:30am, to find out the wind for the upcoming few days and then make decisions as to where to go and anchor.
One thing I didn’t mention earlier is that Mark hurt his back almost 2 weeks ago now. He was bringing in our big fortress anchor as we were leaving Little Bay and pulled something. It was a rough first week but his back is slowly getting better. That was a real eye opener for us. Mark does most if not all of the heavy lifting on our boat and he was out of commission. So I picked up what I could. It was good in one way because now I know how to run the water-maker and bring in the anchor. I can also set the snubber and a few other things. Mark’s back is getting better and it won’t be long before he is back to normal.
Impressions of George Town: first of all, this Harbour has many names – chicken Harbour because many get here and don’t go on; Velcro Harbour…for the same reason. We arrived thinking we’d stay for a week and then travel around a bit to see where we could go when Caroline arrived but now we’re thinking we’ll just hang out here – Velcro Harbour has got a hold of us!!!! It is a very cool place because there are so many cruisers here. At 8 am each morning there is a cruisers net that broadcasts on channel 72. We get the weather and all the news -activities, boat help, for sale stuff, new arrivals and departures. It’s very cool. We’ve even met up with the boat from Newfoundland – Jill and Mike.
Here are a few photos for George Town and area.
We are anchored near Stocking Island. That’s Lumina Point Resort just behind us.George Town is behind all those boats!The entrance into Lake Victoria – the inside Harbour for George Town.This is the inside Harbour and a nice dinghy dock at the grocery store!We climbed Monument Hill and this is the view! This is Stocking Island.This is the north view from the monument.More south view and we’d be in the last anchorage you can see.Sunset from our boat on Friday, March 31!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 