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Information for other cruising boats. Our experiences finding places to anchor, dealing with officials, provisions, etc.

Snorkeling at Warderick Wells, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Thursday, January 8, continued… Keith got ready to go snorkeling. Eric and Keith went to the ranger station to check in. Christi stayed behind to make lunch and dinner. Tiki Tour had also moved from Shroud to Warderick this morning and had moored in The Horseshoe. The Tiki crew and their guests — a family with two kids close in age to Keith — met Eric and Keith at the beach by the ranger station. The kids played on the beach. After a couple of hours, Eric returned to Kosmos to eat lunch and to pick Christi up. Keith said he wasn’t hungry and asked to stay with the other kids.

At about 1600, Eric and Christi returned. They found the group snorkeling in the pass.

The snorkelers saw a group of twelve spotted eagle rays and they followed the rays for quite a while. They said the rays were amazing. From the dinghy, all Christi and Eric could see were black blobs that looked like moving rocks.

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New Year’s Eve at Over Yonder Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Wednesday, December 31

This morning, we were awoken at 0600 from radio chatter. When Eric turned on the internet (when we’re at anchor, we turn Starlink off at night because it’s a power hog), he saw an explosion of What’s App chatter amongst the flotilla group. “The La Paz Waltz” had made the boats in the anchorage move oddly in the night. We’d first heard the term “The La Paz Waltz,” in Baja to describe when boats didn’t move in unison because the wind direction conflicted with strong currents — some boats moved with the wind, others with the current. The boats in the anchorage reported they had abnormal tracks around their anchors and several had come disconcertingly close to hitting one another – within 20 feet! Tiki Tour moved to an anchorage a mile away. Two of the boats went to join the other half of the group in Big Majors. Zimovia stayed put since they were now alone and there was no one to hit them.

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