Happy Family Day

Mark and I hope you all had a great family day and were able to spend a bit of time in person or virtually with your families. For us it’s a virtual chat – we’ll be talking with the girls tonight on messenger! We do video chats once a week to catch up on all that’s going on!!

So in my last post I talked about our water tanks and how we were going to fill our one empty tank at Staniel Cay Yacht Club! Well that didn’t happen!! We tried – we headed to the fuel dock around 8:30am Saturday morning and there were 5 boats ahead of us – and the one on the fuel dock was a mega yacht – they have huge tanks!!! We gave up after waiting over 30 minutes (and the first boat was still on the dock) and followed Daydreams out the cut and onto the Exuma Sound. We travelled a very short distance (about 5nm) to our next anchorage – Bitter Guana.

This was a new anchorage for all of us and it was a really nice spot. The island is known for it’s iguana population and tour boats bring people to see and feed them. It’s a bit unnerving to have a 2ft iguana charging at you looking for food! It’s a good thing they are way more timid then they look. We had a really nice happy hour on our boat that night and the stars were incredible!!

The next morning (Sunday) we left Bitter Guana and headed south to Great Guana Cay – home to Black Point Settlement! Black Point is known for it’s friendly people, amazing bread (made by Lorraine’s mother), Lorraine’s cafe and “the best laundromat” in the Exumas. We went there specifically to do laundry but it was Sunday – very little is open on Sundays in the Bahamas!! So we relaxed for most of the day and got ready to wait in line to do laundry on Monday morning. I decided I could hand wash most of our laundry so on Monday morning we moved from Black Point settlement to Little Bay (just south of the Black Point anchorage). It’s so nice here – super calm, a beautiful beach and only about 10 boats. Jane and Steve joined us here in the late morning after finishing their laundry! We had a lovely day looking for sea glass on the Exuma Sound side of the island.

Our next plan is to move south to Lee Stocking Island in a few days and then get to George Town by the beginning of March. We really like George Town and will spend a few days there getting supplies and relaxing.

I have lots more photos but was having trouble uploading! When we have better wifi, I’ll share some more very cool photos!!