It’s hard to believe the first week of Evelyn and Caroline’s visit is almost at an end. We’ve been having the best time and have explored Cambridge Cay, O’Brien Cay, Black Point and Staniel Cay. The weather has been perfect but the wind has been quite low so we’ve only managed one sail. Our days have been filled with swimming, snorkeling and walking. And at night we’ve played many games of scattegories!!
Our original plan was to stay at Cambridge Cay for 5 nights (leaving today – Sunday, March 5) and then to head south to Black Point. Well our batteries had a different plan. We woke Thursday morning to some very low batteries so we decided to motor to Black Point to charge them up. We replaced our old batteries with new lithium ones back in November. Lithium batteries charge at a higher rate so the charger on the solar panel needed to be adjusted to match these settings. We were not getting great charging from the panel so Mark changed some of the setting on the solar panel charger and now we are doing great!!
Before we left Cambridge, we did manage to spend some time snorkeling the sea aquarium. We also explored the little bay at O’Brien Cay. We spent a good deal of time in the sun and all of us had a bit of a sunburn by the end of the day.
On our way to Black Point, we made a short stop at Bitter Guana Cay. Here the girls had a chance to see the iguanas that live on the island. They also walked the beach! The anchorage here was a bit too bouncy and rolly so we moved over to the anchorage at Black Point. We did a bit of grocery shopping on Friday, plus walked out to the blow hole just north of the Black Point Settlement. It was another hot, sunny day! We decided to have dinner at the Black Point Yacht Club’s Friday night happy hour. This is a new restaurant that has a great view of the harbour and the sunset. We had delicious food, some really strong rum punch and a great view of the sunset!! The next morning (Saturday) I did some laundry and we decided to head back to Staniel Cay – we really needed milk, bread and veggies. Black Point was very low on everything- they didn’t have a mailboat this week!!
We were fortunate to be able to sail back to Staniel Cay on Saturday and arrived just after lunch. We went ashore to find the Staniel Cay grocery stores also very low on everything. We did get milk but no bread and very few veggies!! Oh well!
Today we snorkeled an area called the cookie jar (which Mark and I had snorkeled just before the girls arrived). We went very close to slack tide and had a great time. We saw lots of healthy coral and many fish – including a big barracuda. We also saw a sea turtle cruising around the coral.
On Monday we’ll try to get some bread from Staniel Cay and then we’re heading back up to Cambridge Cay to explore the island itself and maybe go to Rachael’s bubble bath on Compass Cay!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 