Category Archives: Activities

Things we have done during our travels.

Keith’s Perspective on Our Last Week in The Bahamas/Le point de vue de Keith sur notre dernière semaine aux Bahamas

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Saturday, March 21 – Friday, March 27 — This week has been bittersweet. On Saturday, Tiki Tour, Zimovia and us decided to go to Little Bell Cay, but midway they changed their plans to go to Compass Cay. We did not want to go there. Instead we went to Samson Cay, but Tiki Tour and Zimovia decided the anchorage was too rough at Compass, so they went to Little Bell after all. 

Big waves at Rachel’s Bubble Bath on Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

Cette semaine est aigre-douce. Samedi, Tiki Tour, Zimovia et nous avons décidé d’aller à Little Bell Cay, mais ils ont décidé de changer leurs plans et d’aller à Compass Key. On ne voulait pas y aller. À la place, on a décidé d’aller à Sampson Cay, mais Tiki Tour et Zimovia ont décidé qu’il y avait trop de roulis à Compass, donc ils sont allés à Little Bell après tout. 

Big waves at Rachel’s Bubble Bath on Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas
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Lunch and Groceries in New Providence Island (Nassau), The Bahamas

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Sunrise on Thursday, March 26

This morning, the anchorage was rolly and uncomfortable. We did our morning routine of school and chores, but Christi and Keith had to stop school work early because they were both getting nauseated from trying to read with all the motion (as an FYI, we generally did not do school work when Kosmos was in transit because of the propensity to get seasick). 

We decided that we needed to escape the rocking and spend the day onshore. Other than the public park, there was nothing open to the public that was within walking distance. Since we were low on “passage foods,” we wanted to go to the grocery store. We also wanted to eat out for lunch. Eric looked up prices and found that it would cost $35 – $40 each way to take a taxi to the closest grocery store. We knew it would cost the same or less to rent a car for the day. The first two rental agencies that we called had no cars available, but the third place did. They said it would cost $60 for the car for the day, plus a $30 fee to pick us up and drop us back off. We agreed to the terms. We arranged to be picked up at noon at the public beach.

At the beach, there were pylons that looked like they were the remains of what was once a dock. A couple of dinghies were tied to the pylons, but we decided that, with the tide swing while we were gone, it would be safer to beach the dinghy. This was looking northwest from the beach.

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Snorkeling The Aquarium and Transiting to Norman Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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continued... We quickly got the dinghy down, got the snorkeling gear out of the lazarette, suited up and hopped into the dinghy. Here was a shot of the rock called The Aquarium.

There were moorings on the southwest side of the rock, which was the main snorkeling area. We attached to the mooring, which already had several other dinghies on it, and hopped in.

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Busy Day in the Exumas — Rachel’s Bubble Bath, Big Milestone Achieved, Dinghy Motor Failure, and Back to Big Major

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The anchorage at dawn on Sunday, March 22

When we got up, we were pleased to see that the forecast had been correct — the wind had shifted so that anchoring at Rachel’s Bubble Bath would be comfortable today. As soon as we got up, we immediately started getting Kosmos ready to go to sea. We pulled up anchor at 0715, as the sun was rising. It took us about an hour and 20-minutes to get to the anchorage on Compass Cay that was next to Rachel’s Bubble Bath. We had to go through the narrow, shallow channel while the current was strong, which was stressful, but we followed our previous line and all went smoothly. We immediately got dinghy down and made breakfast. 

After breakfast, we met the crew from Tiki Tour on shore and trekked up the short saltwater river to the Bubble Bath.

Thanks to the recent big winds, the waves were huge. They were even coming over the left side of the big rock — in our previous visits, we’d only seen the waves come over the right side of the rock.

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Snorkeling in Warderick Wells Cay and Moving to Sampson Cay, The Exuma Islands, The Bahamas — And Thoughts on Refrigerator/Freezers

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Friday, March 20, continued... In the afternoon, the kids from Tiki and Zimovia came over to play a game called Munchkin. After a while, they moved to Zimovia, which had a bigger table and better seating than Kosmos.

After they left, Eric, Christi and Clean Cup went snorkeling with another family in the anchorage called Sail La Vie. Christi and Eric had briefly met Sail La Vie one of the times we were in Big Major and they seemed like a nice family. We invited Clean Cup to join us since the Clean Cup kids were close in age to the Sail La Vie kids.

The motor had dried out and seemed to be working fine now, so Eric and Christi took their own dinghy — but warned the other two families that a motor failure was possible and to be prepared to rescue them. They left very early just in case there was an emergency. The motor seemed to work fine, which was a relief. Since they were so early, they waited on the sandbar in the middle of The Horseshoe for the other two families to arrive.

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