Dawn on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

It was another windy day, with sustained 15-knots lasting all day. After school and morning chores, we went to shore. We stopped by the grocery store and stocked up on eggs and a few other things. We saw that Deshamon’s was open. When we went in, they said they only had a buffet today, there was no ordering individual meals until dinner time. Due to her allergy, she generally doesn’t eat at buffets, so we went to the yacht club for lunch. 

While we were eating, we saw the supply ship pull in. It must have been floating just above the bottom because it was kicking up a big trail of sand behind it as it approached the dock. Last time, it had pulled in on the north side of the dock, so we got a little panicky when it pulled up on the south side… right where Kosmopolitan was tied up. If you look closely, you can see her between the dinghy dock and the ship’s bow.

But someone kindly moved her over to the west side of the dinghy dock so that she was clear of any potential ship hazards. Whoever you are, thank you! Needless to say, there was a lot of activity around the dock as we returned to the dinghy and headed back to Kosmos.

Two buddy boats with kids close in age to Keith had arrived in the anchorage. Traveler and Tangent told us they were getting together in the evening for games in the evening and invited us over to join them. Much to Keith’s excitement, the kids were D & D players, so the kids played D & D while the adults played dominoes. We all had a great time together.

On Thursday, we pulled up anchor at 0900. There was a fishing hook caught in the anchor and fishing line wrapped around the anchor. There was also a fair amount of seagrass stuck in the chain.

We headed to Shroud Cay, one of the more northern islands in the Exumas chain. We traveled on the inside of the lagoon and never went out into the ocean. There were 2 -3 feet wind waves. Since we were in following seas, it was a comfortable enough ride, but gong the other direction would have been uncomfortable. For the most part, the winds were consistent at 15 – 20 knots, though there were occasional gusts to 25 knots, consistent. At one point, a significant squall hit us. We didn’t notice any lightning, but it was heavy rain that gave Kosmos a good wash down.

There was a lot of boat traffic. We had two close calls: one was a catamaran that overtook us by less than 100 feet and the other was a boat that had no one at the helm. In both cases, the other vessels were the ones burdened to move per maritime rules, but Eric was the one who changed course and speed both times; we would have had a collision otherwise. The fact that the water was so shallow made navigating all the more stressful.

We anchored in the exact same spot on the northern side that we had last time, carefully following the exact course that had been set through the deeper trenches in the otherwise shallow water. Christi saw a big ray swim by when she went out to drop the anchor. It looked pretty much the same as it did the last time we were here.

The anchorage was a bit rolly so Eric put out the port side flopper stopper. We just stayed aboard all night. Here was the sunset.

And the twilight