Monday, December 30, 2013

 
This is what Gary got caught in today in Whale Cay
We waited it out!

 The name of this place is
"Two Rocks" :0)

 Entrance to Whale Cay

 Coming into Baker's Bay

Just beautiful!

 Baker's Bay

 Baker's Bay North Shore

 Settlement Harbor, Great Guana Cay

 Best parking place in Settlement Harbor!

Headed for Marsh Harbor



Coming into Marsh Harbor



 Marsh Harbor

Boats at anchor in Marsh Harbor

 Very rich Marsh Harbor home

More Dough

 

Our sunset!

 

Well today was quite the surprise.  After loafing all day yesterday I was ready to get up and do some much needed cleaning!  However!: at 0745 I see Gary pulling  his dinghy up and I’m thinking “now why is he doing that?”  Come to find out “our window of opportunity” to cross the Whale is here! Right now! Otherwise, we may be stranded in Green Turtle Cay until the 5^th at the earliest.   Normally that would be fine but Gary & Jayne have company flying in on the 11^th and they didn’t want to chance not getting down to Marsh Harbor in time.  So off we went! Gary and Jayne left about an hour before us, and as you can see, they got caught in some semi-bad weather in the Whale.  We saw it coming and slowed down tremendously so we would miss it.  Oh, and by the way, you may know Gary’s company, it is Michael.  He came to see them last year in Key West.  I had a picture of him on the blog.  He is also bringing another friend this year!

On the way down, Bob and I stopped at Baker’s Bay for lunch.  The place is just beautiful!  We can’t wait to go back for a couple of days.  Bob even jumped in and did some snorkeling but there wasn’t anything to see, besides if there was you wouldn’t need to jump in, you can see everything in the water, it is so clear!

After Baker’s Bay we poked our noses into Settlement Harbor to see what it was all about also.  The place is tiny.  We may or may not be able to get in there depending on how many boats are there. 

Now we are at Marsh Harbor.  It is not at ll what I expected.   In fact, Marsh Harbor is probably our least favorite place so far.  In fact, we are leaving in the morning and heading for Hopetown.  Marsh Harbor has everything you need, except Junkanoo and beaches with easy to reach reefs, so we are leaving in the a.m. as soon as we purchase some water and get rid of our trash!  Somehow or another, we will be somewhere for Junkanoo!
 

By the way, Bob did get the dinghy fixed.  It was the female attachment that went into the motor from the gas tank.  He had 2 new ones on board that the previous owner left, thankfully there were two, because one of the new ones was bad also!