Green Turtle Cay

We have now been here a little over a week, not sure where the time goes! We have made new friends  here, this a great boating community. We have explored most of the Cay by dingy including going grocery shopping by dingy, and having a great cheese burger for 7 bucks at the liquor store. They serve breakfast and lunch at a counter bar that holds about 6 people. The pricing structure on alcohol is interesting to say the least. Most hard liqueur is priced only a little over US prices.  You would have to  pay $17 for a bottle of Barefoot wine, yet a nice Chilean cab is about $12.  The local beer Kalik is $58 a case.  I underestimated our beer supply by one case ---what are you  going to do.

We had what I thought we had  an engine dingy issue the other day coming back from somewhere.  The dingy would not get on plane.  After a few choice words directed at the dink I realized I had failed to bring up the mushroom anchor. Da! When you tie up at a dingy dock here you are ask to bow in and drop a stern anchor.  

Our friends Tom and Julie and  Carole and DeVere caught up with us here on Tuesday.  The weather has changed since they have arrived. Last evening we had thunderstorms blow in and drop a ton of rain and sustained winds of 22 knots gust to around forty.  I had forgotten to stow the extra cooler that was just siting on the swim platform.  Carol called me as it was floating out to sea.  I wasn't pissed about the cooler but it had my two conch shells I had found in it.  I was helpless as it was blown away in the storm.  This morning Carol called again and told me she saw my cooler at the end of the sound.  I raced over with dingy and there was my cooler tied up to a marker warning of a shoal.  My conch shells were still inside. We spent the afternoon at the beach.

Our tentative plan is to leave here on Sat. Morning and run 50 miles to Big Sail Cay and anchor for one to two days.  We plan on crossing the 121 miles to Stuart on Sunday or Monday depending on weather.  We will go directly to Stuart while our Buddy boats will go to Fort Pierce. We will then start the migration home.  We will keep you posted but we may be home around  the 19 th weather permitting.