Wednesday, January 21 — This morning we woke up to find that the weather was not what was forecast. It was supposed to be nice, but it was actually windy and rainy. We’d planned to go hiking with Bogumila on shore, but hiking was canceled due to the rain.

The kids in our anchorage got together onboard one of the boats for about 45-minutes, then all the catamarans left to go to an anchorage called Rudder Cut Cay. We didn’t follow because the pass into Rudder was one of those shallow passes that we could only go through at high tide — and high tide had already passed.

After they left, the wind shifted direction by a little bit, and the anchorage went back to uncomfortable. We were worried about how much the wind would pick up overnight and how uncomfortable it may get. Not long after we’d started to worry about how uncomfortable it was going to get, Tiki Tour texted that they weren’t going to go all the way to Rudder tonight. They were going to spend the night in an anchorage called Musha Cay. They’d finish the trek to Rudder Cay tomorrow.

Eric checked to make sure it was a suitable route/anchorage for us and that we could get there before dark. It was two hour ride, so if we hurried, we could make it in time. And there would be nothing scary between White Point and Musha. On an instant whim, we decided to follow Tiki Tour. We immediately got boat ready and left as quickly as we could. Since we’d never gotten the dinghy down, it went fast. We pulled up anchor at 1500.

After we left, we realized that we hadn’t taken a single photo of the White Point anchorage. We were waiting for better weather, and better weather never happened. From what we could see from the anchorage, it appeared to be all vacant land that looked the same as the rest of the Exumas.

We arrived at 1700. Visually speaking, it was a lovely anchorage, with several scenic islands around it. According to the internet, Musha Cay was a fancy private resort island owned by David Copperfield. Per the website “David Copperfield… uses Musha Cay as a test lab for his creative pursuits, then shares these unexpected adventures with you and your guests.”

The anchorage was calm as long as no boats were going by, however, there was quite a bit of boat traffic in the channel that we were anchored near, so we did get a fair amount of wakes.

Christi got started on dinner as soon as we dropped anchor. This afternoon, the skies cleared up a bit, and after days of the sunrises and sunsets being blocked by clouds, we finally got to enjoy the sunset and colorful twilight.

After dinner, Eric and Keith went over to Tiki Tour to play cards and games. Christi stayed aboard Kosmos to work on blog posts.

On Thursday, the sunrise was blocked by a cloud.

We left for Rudder Cay in the morning, near high tide. We lucked out because a monohull sailboat that probably had a draft similar to ours went into the shallow channel right before us, so we were able to follow its line. This image shows just how close we were to the shallow area on the port side. It was just as narrow on the starboard side.

In good news, the chart was accurate, the sailboat didn’t ground, and neither did we. Bogumila had arrived to Rudder not long before we did, and we anchored near them. Tiki Tour arrived shortly after we did. The red dot was where we had anchored at Musha Cay and the blue dot was where we’d anchored at Rudder.

It was another lovely anchorage, visually speaking.

All three of us were anxious to go to shore. Keith had had a little beach time on Monday, but Eric and Christi had not set foot on land since Saturday. We got the dinghy down and perused the shoreline a bit, looking for the cool cave that was supposed to be there. The indention that we could see from the boat turned out not to be much of a cave.

There was a bigger cave around the corner, but that one also wasn’t particularly exciting.

We headed to the beach, which was in a lovely small, protected cove (to the right of the dot in the map above). Bogumila told us that this little cove was normally full of turtles, and were shocked that we hadn’t seen any today.

The kids played and the adults socialized. We never ventured beyond the beach as there were several big signs posted that said No Trespassing (beyond the beach)… Deadly Conditions. David Copperfield owned the island, too, so our guess was the “deadly conditions” were armed security guards. Or getting caught up in the wrong part of one of his “unexpected adventures.” Or being used as guinea pigs to test new magic tricks that could go terribly wrong.

We really enjoyed our time on dry land after being stuck onboard for so long. At dinner time, we all headed back to our respective boats. We had a quiet night aboard. This was the sunset and twilight.