Bellatrix

19 November 2014

West End, Grand Bahamas

Yesterday was a lovely Bahamas day, 80 degrees and sunny until late afternoon when you all sent us a little of your cold front to bring us back to reality. It rained a little but we made the best of it talking to other cruisers. 

Last night we had a celebratory bottle of champagne, tenderloin and stone crab claws and lobster caught not far from the boat, we bought from a local (fresh). A nice bottle of wine compliments of Miss Nancy topped off a fine meal. The after dinner movie was “Must Love Dogs”.

Today we considered biking the 16 miles to Eight Mile Rock, a town with the local phone service store to get Bahamian cell coverage. About 5 miles out Robin’s bike, which we had signed for with our lives, suffered a chain malfunction. As we were trying to reinstall the chain we realized we could use a tool of some kind to brake the chain free. A police officer stopped evaluated our dilemma and came back wth a tire iron. As he told us when he was younger he had bikes, WHACK, WHACK, WHACK, with the tire iron and soon we were on our way again. We decided to go back and stopped at the local grocery and a pub for a Kalik and some food.

Tomorrow we will go back out in the ocean, head north for about 16 miles, then turn in at Memory Rock and enter the Little Bahama Bank. Little Bahama Bank is a realitively shallow body of water that is about 85 miles wide and 35 miles long. The depths are between 0 and 24 feet. We watched over the banks today as the wind blew 15 -20 and the seas were white caped but less than a foot high. We believe we will head to Great Sale Cay ( pronounced “key”) and spend a day or two at anchor. After we will head toward Walker’s Cay, Grand Cay, Double Breasted Cay and on down the Abacos to Green Turtle Cay.

Sorry, but we are having fun