Saturday, November 22, 2025 — This morning, the sunrise was blocked by the clouds. But the sky still turned pretty colors.
Yesterday, we’d walked by a cafe that looked promising. This morning, we took the dinghy over to the dock by Snappas and walked over to the cafe for breakfast.
Friday, November 21, 2025 – The sunrise was blocked by clouds, but there was still a little bit of dramatic color.
We haven’t said much about the anchorage conditions, so we figured we should. All in all, it was comfortable and pleasant. We did get some wakes from the ferry and other boat traffic, but the wakes usually weren’t bad and they weren’t frequent.
Today was the typical routine. We did school and chores in the morning. One of the chores was to change the sheets on Keith’s bed, which was a surprisingly difficult task that took two people. Normally, Eric and Christi did it together. While Eric’s back was feeling better, he was still unable to bend over to put on the bedding. Keith helped Christi, instead. It did not go smoothly, but it did get done.
The next item on the to-do list was to go to the grocery store. There was a big grocery store almost a mile south of the closest public dock and small grocery store a few blocks west. Given that it was still a bit challenging for Eric to walk on the uneven roads, we opted for the small grocery store. We decided our best plan of action would be to have lunch at Colors, then walk to the grocery store from there.
Lunch was good. This was the view of Colors from the road and a close up of one of the exterior walls.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 — It usually takes us a few days to recover from the disrupted sleep cycles during passages. This morning, we woke up feeling like our body clocks were back to normal. While Eric was still in pain, his back did feel a little better. Knowing he was on the mend made him optimistic that he’d fully recover relatively soon. Sunrise.
In the morning, we did school and chores. In the afternoon, we went back to Snappas for lunch. Snappas also had beautiful views. The menu had a page explaining its history. It had opened in 2002, and was destroyed by a hurricane in 2004. In 2005, it reopened and was destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. It reopened again in 2023. The food was good, but we thought that Colors had better food, more food choices, and was better value for money.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 — Christi and Keith both woke up late, still feeling zombie-esque. In the morning, Christi did school with Keith, cleaned and did laundry. Eric was still in a lot of pain this morning. Despite the pain, he managed to rinse and wipe down some of the starboard side of the boat. Eric and Keith worked on organizing stuff to move from marina mode to anchorage mode. For us, recovering from a passage is a 1:1 ratio — for every day at sea, it takes a day of extra rest, extra cleaning, extra organizing, etc, to get back on track for our normal routine.
We went to shore for a late lunch/early dinner, mostly because we wanted to enjoy time on land. The first restaurant we went to was called Snappas, which was a little bit west of the public dock that we went to yesterday. We picked it in part because the reviews said it had its own dock. The restaurant and its sea wall, not dock, looked new and there was a small marina there.
Monday, November 17 continued… once we’d anchored, we breathed a huge sigh of relief. We made it! Woo hoo! We watched the sunrise.
We noticed that, unlike most of the other places we’d visited in The Bahamas, the water had a green hue to it instead of the typical stunning azure blue. The water in and of itself was clear, but there was algae on the sand, giving the water the green tint.
After the sunrise, we got to work. Keith did a light rinse down to get the worst of the salt off. Now that we were back to making all of our own water, we were concerned about water usage, so he was careful to not use more than was absolutely necessary. Christi wiped down the windows with wet, lightly soaped rags.
Eric went out to the back deck and configured the boom from paravane mode to dinghy mode. He had to twist a little awkwardly to undo the shackles and reattach them differently, which involved bending and twisting at awkward angles. At one point, he felt something was wrong, and realized that he’d hurt his back.
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