This morning we are leaving for No Name Cay.  It is supposed to have some great snorkeling there.  They say the reef and fish there are just gorgeous. There is no town there so we won't have phone or internet service for a few days.  Once we leave there we are headed for Treasure Cay, there is a town there and maybe some type of service but don't know for sure.  We will be back here on the 30th for New Year's Eve and Day.  They have Junkanoo here on New Years day around noon and we plan on being part of it!  Can't wait!

Meet Sam & Charlie

Jon & Jen live with them

Do you see Samantha the cat?

It took me a while to find her!

Merry Christmas to/from the Kraft family!

 

OK....I may have gotten a little out of control with the pigs

but they were so cute!!

 

Dream Catcher arriving at No Name Cay

 Us arriving at Dream Catcher with White Russians

This boat's name is Prozac!
It was rented for the day to come to No Name Cay

 Gary being inundated by piggies!

 Gary paying too much attention to the piggies...
see what happens....

His dinghy decided to leave without him

 Gary rescues dinghy, while I feed piggies!

 Mama wasn't sharing!  We had to separate her
from the kiddies so they could eat also!

 I'm full!  Nappy time!

 I'm not!  Feed me!

 Too adorable!

 Still!

 Bob loves his close-ups!

 Hurry up and get that cracker before mom sees it!

 Gary playing with piggies again!

 Meet John and a third of his wife Cindy
They live on Rough Cut

 Me keeping mom away from the little ones
so they can eat

 Un oh!!  Where did this other one come from!!!

 Piggies, Bob snorkeling and Storymaker in the distance

 Rough Cut - home made (great story below)

 Sun setting in No Name

 Sun set

 

No Name Island is only 3 miles from where we left.  We were here within 45 minutes, maybe an hour.  As soon as we pulled up all I heard was Bob yelling “pigs! pigs!” and once again the dinghy was down in no time!  This is only the second time this has happened…the first time was last year when we were greeted by the dolphin in one of our cubby holes!

There was a boat here called “Prozac” with some people who had rented it for a couple of hours to come out here, so I convinced Bob that maybe we should wait until they left before going over to the island.  They were getting ready to leave as it was.  Bob, reluctantly, agreed. But as soon as they were gone, Bob was headed to Gary’s to celebrate our findings and to get to shore as soon as possible! I made up some White Russians for us to enjoy while we were on the island and Jayne brought some crackers for us to feed to the piglets!

We met John and Cindy, owners of Rough Cut, while on the beach.  Gary & Jayne invited them to dinner so we learned a lot about their boat and how it got its name.  They are from Reno, NV and built about half of their boat there in Reno - John said he knew if it wasn’t close to home he would never get it done.  Once he completed the first part, he had to get it to the East coast.   He either hired someone, or had a friend who told him what was going to be the easiest and less costly way to do this, and this is how the name of the boat came about.  Once he had built the outside and most of the inside of the shell of the boat he cut it up into 3 pieces.  He was told to make the cuts jagged so when it was time to put it back together it would bond together tighter.  So he cut both hulls off and had 2 tractor trailers drive it to the East coast and then him and Cindy put it back together!  Now that was crazy!  He wouldn’t recommend anyone else building their own boat.  He says it’s just way too much work.  Oh, and look at his engines outside of the boat!  I’m hoping we get an opportunity to go inside and see it. 

We are moving on to Treasure Cay in the morning providing the weather cooperates.  We need to cross Whale Cay which is two nautical miles south of No Name Cay and is famous for its passage out into the ocean.