We’ve been securely anchored at Bond Cay since last Saturday (January 20) but it’s time now to move along to Nassau Harbour area. It’s been a very productive week with lots of jobs getting crossed off the list. Some of the items include changing the wire lines for the dinghy lift and the mizzen boom bridle to a very strong rope called dyneema. This rope is partial made with Kevlar and is touted to be “the world’s strongest man-made fibre”. We also added 2 new chocks at the stern. Chocks are used to guide your dock lines over the rail of the boat which helps with chafing.
We’ve also done a bit of exploring north of here to a little cay called Lizard Cay. There’s a restaurant on Little Harbour Cay (this cay is right beside Lizard) but we didn’t visit it. We dinghied north from Lizard and walked along a very interesting sand bar where we found live conch crawling along the sand.
It’s been very quiet here. For the most part we’ve been on our own. One night there were 7 of us around Bond Cay – 2 at the north end, us in the middle and the other 4 were clustered at the south end. By morning, we were down 1 and by the end of the day, it was just us and one catamaran. The anchorage is so large that the other boats were very far away!!
We’ll pull out of here around 9am in the morning (January 28th). We’re taking the south route to get back out on the Northwest Providence channel. It’s fairly shallow at that end of the island so we have to go through close to high tide. We’re heading for Athol Island, which is on the north east side of the Nassau Harbour. We’re expecting some north west wind overnight and into the day on January 29th so this anchorage will protect us from that wind. This will be just an overnight stop. In the morning on Jan. 29, we’ll make our way to the south west end of New Providence to head into the dock. Crimson Kathryn will have a little rest while we fly home to watch Evelyn’s defence.
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 