The sunrise on Thursday March 27, 2025 was blocked by clouds, but it still was pretty with the crescent moon

When we woke up, we saw that the wind had picked up to 12 – 15 knots, but it didn’t appear to have rained. The harbor was choppy, and the motion was uncomfortable. The waves seemed to be coming from two directions: We were pitching (the waves on our nose), but we were also being pushed to the side a bit.

When we’d done the photo shoot on Sunday, we’d been in a hurry to leave for shore after we’d re-anchored, so we hadn’t put out the flopper stoppers. Since then, the motion hasn’t been that bad, so we hadn’t bothered to put them out. But this morning, putting out the flopper stoppers was the first thing we did. The flopper stoppers did help to dampen the motion quite a bit, but it still wasn’t pleasant onboard.

The wind screamed all day. We never got the dinghy down. One of the cruisers had a LEGO building playdate for kids on their boat. Eric and Keith went, and they managed to catch a ride with some of the other attendees. Christi never left Kosmos. This was taken shortly after the sunset.

On Friday, weather conditions worsened in the wee hours of the morning. The wind was consistently at 20+ knots. We had one gust at 27 knots and one at 28 knots! There was heavy rain, but we lucked out and had a break in the rain during sunrise.

The strong winds brought white caps and the waves still seemed to be coming from two directions. It felt like we were on a passage and was very uncomfortable. Christi had to stop school not long after starting because she got sea sick trying to grade one of Keith’s assignments. 

In good news, the wind generator was making a lot of power. And a pretty rainbow appeared in between rain showers.

With all of the uncomfortable motion, by the early afternoon we were desperate to get to dry land. Eric talked one of our D & D buddies into giving us a ride to Chat N Chill beach. We knew that in these conditions it would be a wet ride, but we somehow forgot to put on raincoats. We were literally dripping wet by the time we got to shore. Anxious for some exercise, we for a walk. We saw a few birds, which was a nice surprise since we’ve seen so few birds in the Bahamas.

We’d passed the south end of Chat N Chill beach and were walking along the rocky shoreline that separated Chat N Chill beach from Sand Dollar beach when we noticed an almost hidden paved walkway.

The path ended at a house that looked like it had been a well-built, nice home, but it appeared that the entire roof had blown off in a hurricane. In some spots, there was a lot of debris piled up along the wrap-around deck.

The house had stunning 360-degree views, with Elizabeth Harbour to the west, the tiny bay that we’re explored a week or so ago to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east beyond the bay.

We noticed that there was a nearly identical path leading to the little bay, too.

At the bottom was a couple of little structures and a large private dock.

Someone had spent a lot of money and effort to create this little paradise. It was sad that it was destroyed. After exploring the ruins, we’d felt like we’d gotten the need to walk out of our systems, so we headed back to Chat N Chill to do some socializing. After a couple of hours enjoying dry land, we felt like we were ready to brave the rocking again, and our friend took us back to Kosmos.