The weekend of the 6th was Province Towns annual Heritage festival. We had lunch at the liquor store, strange as that sounds, then dinner at Pineapples, great grouper kabobs. We made it back by dingy for night caps at Sunsets. It was a new moon so the surf was rough. We were siting at the bar which was a deck over the ocean. Every time the surf came in, the spray shot up 3 ft under our bar stools , yes we all got very wet!!! The ride back in the dinks was beyond wet.
We left GRC on Saterday morning and ran 85 miles to Mangove Cay were the three of us anchored for the night. We were 50 miles from nowhere behind a liitle spot of land. We were in 8 feet of water, and dead calm. No moon so the stars where incredible!
We pulled anchor in the dark at 5:30 AM and headed out. Our friends were headed to the Lake Pierce Inlet and we headed to the Saint Luice Inlet in Stuart. The first 25 miles over the Bahama Bank was incredible, 15 ft of water crystal clear with Hammer head sharks swimming below the boat.
We passed Memory Rock and stared out into the Atlantic. At first we had glass water with a less then a 10'inch swell. As we approached the Gulf Stream unfortunately the wind picked up from the North and in a matter of minutes the waves were 3-4 ft on the Starboard for 3 hours. Not good, we took spray over the top of our canvas which is 20 ft high. We got into Stuart at 3:30 and called it a day.
Will post more later, I am tired and am going to bed!
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