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.
Continue readingcontinued... 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.
Sunrise on Tuesday, March 24
First thing this morning, we went to the airport to say goodbye to Tiki Tour’s guest, Angela (who was going home) and their crew member, Keira (who was going on a short trip). They unloaded the luggage at the dock, but we weren’t allowed to leave our dinghies on the dock, so we beached them and walked over to the airport.
Group shot before they boarded the plane.
Continue readingDawn on Monday, March 23
And the sunrise.
The wind had shifted again, and it was a little rolly in the anchorage this morning.
Continue readingOn Thursday, March 19, we pulled up anchor first thing in the morning. As had been forecast, it was raining with no wind. The lack of wind meant there was a lot of slack in the chain, so it was easy to get the snubber off and the anchor up, and we didn’t have to be out in the rain for long. Because there was no wind, we’d been doing circles around the anchor.
We left near high tide, on the rising tide. We were following the previous track that we’d taken in, so there wasn’t the anxiety going through the pass today that there had been on Monday when we weren’t 100% sure of the depths. Thanks to the lack of wind, it was a comfortable 2.5 hour ride to Warderick Wells Cay, though it did rain lightly the whole time.
The catamarans we were meeting had anchored in the same area that we’d anchored in at Christmas. The water in that anchorage was, for the most part, too shallow for us. Eric managed to thread through the narrow, slightly deeper channel to score the lone deep spot amongst them. We had to go out in the rain to anchor.
By the time Keith and Christi had finished schoolwork, the rain had stopped. Zimovia took all 9 kids (between the four boats) tubing. They ran two tubes at a time to maximize the number of kids being pulled per run.
Afterwards, the kids hung out of the beach for a little while.
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