Dawn on Wednesday, March 25, 2026

And the sunrise.

Eric and Christi both slept poorly because the snubber was making a lot of noise throughout the night. The smell of trash burning was strong this morning, just as it had been yesterday evening. We’d intended to leave early, but were off to a slow start didn’t leave pull up anchor until about 0930. The blue dot on the map was Norman Cay (where we left from) and the red dot was the anchorage we went to.

It was a mostly sunny day with light, scattered clouds overhead and heavy clouds along horizon. The seas weren’t flat like they had been yesterday, but conditions were pretty good. We estimated 3-foot swells + 2 foot wind chop on the starboard beam. We ran ar 1600 RPM and averaged a little over 6-knots. We arrived in the Clifton Bay (AKA West Bay) anchorage at around 1630. There were quite a few boats in there, but it was a big anchorage and we found a spot with no problem. It was a bit rolly, so we put out the port flopper stopper right away. Here was a map zoomed in on the anchorage.

From what we could see, the shoreline looked like to have mostly high-end, large private homes.

There were a couple of beaches.

The beach to the right in this photo was actually part of a public park and had a dock where we could take the dinghy.

We believed this portion was part of the park as it was undeveloped, but we weren’t sure about that.

We did not attempt to go to shore. We had a quiet night onboard. Here was the sunset.

The cloud formations made the twilight unique and colorful.