Back to marina life, March 1, 2013

We are tied to a dock for the first time in eight weeks. We left Staniel Cay late in the day on February 26 and had a fantastic night sail north to the Nassau area. We covered the 80 miles with almost no engine time. Our kind of trip. The moon was full and the dolphins danced in our wake keeping us company.




We left Staniel Cay after spending four great days with our friends from Midland, Randy and Sherri. They had flown down to see us.




While they were with us, we sailed, snorkeled, fed the swimming pigs, and the iguanas. We ate, drank and laughed.









We taught Sherri how to stay dry while riding in the dinghy.




We also took a charter fishing trip. Dan caught a nice yellow fin tuna, Laurie caught a big barracuda. Randy hooked an Oceanic White Tip shark in the two hundred pound range. He fought it for nearly 45 minutes and got it to the boat when the captain broke it off. There was no way we were going to bring a nine foot shark in the boat. Randy was exhausted and the shark was angry, like an old man returning soup in a deli.








We will spend the next week in Nassau enjoying time with some of Laurie's family before heading back to the Exumas. A local told us that there are 400,000 people in the Bahamas and 300,000 of them live in Nassau. It has a "big city feel."



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Location:Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas