At 11:00 am we left Governor Harbor and cruised 27.7 miles to the Cove on Eleuthera, this is about 2 miles south of the glass window I talked about earlier. Seas were a solid 4 ft on the stern and winds still blowing 20 knots plus. We anchored for the night in this beautiful cove tucked around from the ocean so we only had to deal with the swell but no waves. The dinks were lowered and off went to the beach and then a cruise to the looking glass from the sound rather than the ocean side. In the picture you can see some swells coming through but on the day we traveled there by car the spray was coming over the bridge. We enjoyed a nice dinner and sunset, however sleep was a little sparse as the swells rolled us around a bit.
The next morning we left around 7:30 and headed to Spanish Wells, finally we had calm seas and light winds as we cruised the 11 miles across the bay to a cut that you can go through to the other side of Eleuthra and then on to Spanish Wells. The cut funnels the water through at great velocity and we made sure we were going through with the tide. Going through the cut we picked up
over 5 miles an hour. We stopped for fuel and then headed in to the Spanish Wells Yacht Basin where we are spending 2 nights. I beautiful marina and vibrantly colored Island with a busy fishing port. We rented golf carts and drove over to the Sand Bar for lunch of Cracked Conch Burgers and Hurricanes. Yes we had an afternoon nap!!! We also went out to dinner at Ship Wrecks and had Wahoo and Lobster Mac and Cheese. Today was chore day, grocery store, laundry, lay by the pool etc. I picked up 2.5 pounds of Stone Crab for dinner tonight @ $15 a pound. Tomorrow we are off to the the Abaco's we have about 50 miles of open ocean to cross so please wish us calm seas, the forecast does look favorable. I will try to drag a fishing line waves permitting as we are in 15,000 ft of water and the fishing is reported extremely good!
Pictures will be added latter.
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