Exumas here we come

On Monday we left from Nassau and headed to an anchorage in the Exuma's called Allen key this was a beautiful spot but proved at night to be very rough with lots of roll from the current that ripped through the cut.  We dropped the dingy's and went for a short ride over to the beach to feed the Iguanas grapes, there were 30 or 40 of them as big as 3 feet.

We took the dinks to a private beach on Highborne Cay and the girls snorkeled for sea biscuits,  between 2 excursions there they must have picked op 50 of them.

Tuesday we traveled a total of 4 miles to Highborne Cay where we tied up at a very high end marina. 2.50 per foot but  $60 for one days electricity.  We rented  a golf cart and went exploring and posing for pictures with a local at the school bus crossing.

That evening we reconnected with people we had met in Marsh Harbour last year and had cocktails on their sailing Cat, followed by one of the best dinners we have ever had at the restaurant on the hill above the Marina!

The next morning we took of for the short hope to Shroud Cay where we anchored for 1 night and  dingyed up the river at high tide and to the other side of the Island and the Ocean.

 The following day we dropped anchor at Warwick Wells for a short bit of snorkeling, and then cruised into StanielCay for a two night stay. We fed the swimming pigs and snorkeled the Groto which was part of the James Bond movie Thunderball..  We also celibrated our new friends Brian's  50th at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club. We spent a total of two nights waiting out a strong  NW wind.
Loved it here but time to swing on a hook again!

After leaving Staniel Cay be went back North to an mooring field at Cambridge Cay and the Bahamas Land and Sea Park.  We snorkeled what is called the Aquarium, the best we have ever experienced. We put 30 miles on the Dinks cruising the inland water ways. We went past Johnny Deeps private Island and other truly spectacular islands and beaches.  We spend two nights here on a mo0ring
On one of our beach walks we meet a couple on a 49' foot Salene who invited our now gang of 8 for cocktails, really great people who had spent 5 years sailing around the world!

 Today we cruised the inside passage from Cambridge Cay and to Black Point where we are doing Laundry and I am writing this post in a bar.  While walking around the Settlement we ran into a group of school kids all dressed up for classes.  We also took the dinks out on ultra flat water and checked out the sights.

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