Family time in the Bahamas

For the first time, both Evelyn and Caroline have joined us in the Bahamas. Caroline has been down 3 other times but this is Evelyn’s first trip!! They left Toronto on Monday Feb. 27th early morning and took a WestJet flight to Nassau. After a 3 hour layover, they boarded a small inter-island flight on Flamingo Air and headed to Staniel Cay. Evelyn and Caroline loved this little flight – small plane (only 15 seats) with a great view of the Exumas.

We had arrived at Staniel Cay well in advance of Feb. 27th and were all ready for the girls’ arrival. We headed to the airport (okay it is an airport but it’s basically a fence and a couple of buildings!!) and waited for their plane to arrive! It was a bit late but they got in around 5 pm. We had an awesome rib dinner that night and sat out on the bow looking at the stars.

Early Tuesday morning we pulled up anchor, filled our water tanks at Staniel Cay Yacht Club and then headed north to Cambridge Cay. We’ve had the most unusually calm weather this season – many days of low to no wind and Tuesday was one of those days. We motored the short 15 nm and arrived at Cambridge Cay at lunchtime. After lunch we did our first exploring. We took the dinghy over to Rocky Dundas – an island near Compass Cay that has amazing caverns. The weather was perfect for exploring and we saw tons of fish, coral and of course, the caves! We also dinghied over to the south east side of Cambridge Cay and swam the coral reef out there – lots of fish and the coral was definitely better looking then last year.

Evelyn and Caroline have 2 weeks with us and we plan to see as much as we can in that time! Today we’ll be exploring the sea aquarium and doing a reef drift (you float above the reef with the dinghy in tow) in the afternoon. We have another amazingly calm day!!