We've already been here 6 weeks - how can that be??!!

I’ve again been reminded that it is time to make an entry to the blog. We got one especially lengthy complaint – “I would like to log a formal complaint in that the people in the real world would like to see how you are managing your terrible situation. I personally feel that one update per month is not meeting expectations. Due to this sub-par performance, the blogging frequency should be increased to at least a bi-monthly status and monitored for effectiveness. Given the current lack of feedback to the real world, you may not even know what day of the week or even what month it is, so it may be helpful to periodically look at a calendar to ensure that you are meeting the new increased blogging frequency. “  Thanks Brian!



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!

We finally had sufficient good weather and winds out of the east so that we could make it down to Lynyard Cay – one of the sea glass beaches that we like to visit. And yes we finally found some sea glass, but not a lot. And certainly not any big pieces. We spent a pleasant 4 days down there, with only one other boat in sight. I take that back – there were several others that came in late one day and left early the next morning, heading out of Little Harbour Cut for Eleuthera and the Exumas. We watched them go through the cut with 4 – 5 foot rollers and waves pretty much breaking all the way across. We would lose site of the boats and only see their masts when they would go down between the swells. It was making me seasick to watch!


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 spent a few days at Snake Cay with two other boats, ‘Wingspread – Chris & Charlie’, whom we met three years ago and really enjoy spending time with, as well as some new friends Jim & Beth on ‘Mad Cap’. ‘Mad Cap’ has since gone south, heading towards Cuba. Chris & Charlie led all of us on a dinghy tour through the river/creek at Snake Cay. It was very pretty back there – we saw Rays, large sea turtles and it seems to be a great place for conch hunting.

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

 We make no promises at this point to post any more frequently than we have been – as it has been pointed out to us we are slackers, and proud of it!!