One of the beaches the dogs make us walk - what a pain! |
We’ve been traveling around the Abacos and moving every few days from one anchorage to another as the wind moves or our mood changes. This is a little more troublesome than moving your chair on the beach and takes a little more time than that, but we’re trying to cope with the many demands on our time. There are numerous beaches we have to walk and scavenge for ‘beach treasures’, as well as happy hours aboard other boats that we ‘must’ attend. Days like yesterday when we had to go in and drop off our laundry (and go back and pick it up later in the day), as well as a trip to the liquor store, and then the dogs made us take them for a long walk on the beach, PLUS we had a happy hour to attend aboard ‘Sojourner’ – that was a particularly taxing day for us – so much to do in one day – we dropped into bed at 10:00pm totally exhausted and it was past our bedtime!!! Days like that kinda make us think we’re really pushing ourselves too far. I know all y’all that are reading this can sympathize. We’ll try to start slowing down a bit and enjoy ourselves.
Lunch @ Grabbers with friends |
Man-O-War Anchorage |
I'll try to tell you about a few of the places we’ve been lately and ‘try’ to post a few pictures. Pictures seem to be especially troublesome to post for some reason. I'm not sure if they will be in the correct places or not - all I can say is that there will be pictures.
We watched this ship go aground - it was no easy task to push & pull it back into deeper water! |
While we were at Lynyard Cay we dinghied over to Little Harbour and Pete’s Pub, the only place at Little Harbour, and were reminded of their slogan – “Where the Elite Meet to Eat in their Barefeet”. That will be ‘the place to be’ on Feb 5, as it is Pete’s birthday party and it is an annual ‘event’.
Happy Hour aboard 'Sojourner' |
We’ve been back to Guana Cay, for the Sunday afternoon Pig Roast, Treasure Cay, and Man-O-War Cay. We anchored on the north end of Man-O-War where we had just a little bit of land between us and the Atlantic Ocean – we could look off the bow of our boat across the little piece of land and watch the waves break on the other side – pretty cool.
Today we are heading south again with ‘Civil Twilight’, Alan & Jeri, and will each try to remember how to fly our spinnakers. We had a long discussion/laugh last night about how long it had been since our spinnakers had been out of their bags – we’ll see how we do. Civil Twilight is a far faster boat than us so they will no doubt be waaay ahead of us in no time. Hopefully we can each get some good pictures of the other on the way.
Sunset @ Lynyard Cay |