Dawn and sunrise on Tuesday, December 2, 2025
This morning, Christi woke up with a bunch of bug bites on her legs. Eric had warned her to wear pants yesterday since he’d gotten a couple of bug bites while onshore on Sunday. She regretted not taking his advice. But at least it wasn’t nearly as many as we’d gotten at Lubber’s Landing.
Continue readingMonday, December 1, 2025 — It was another colorful dawn, despite the fact that the sunrise itself was completely blocked by clouds.
After we finished school and morning chores, we went to lunch at Grabbers with Tiki Tour. Conveniently, Grabbers had their own dock.
Sunday, November 30, 2025 — We apparently missed a beautiful rainbow this morning. A fellow cruiser sent us these photos.
This morning started off as a lazy Sunday morning. We had no plans to move. Then, one of the family boats announced they were moving to an anchorage where the kids could play in the water. The other two families said they’d go, too. The sea conditions weren’t going to be great and Eric wasn’t eager to go. But they were all in sailboats and it was a good day to sail, so we understood why they were eager to move. We knew that if we wanted to stay with the families on sailboats, we’d have to get used to traveling on windy days instead of calm days. We decided to follow.
Continue readingFriday, November 28 — It was an interesting sunrise. The clouds mostly blocked the colors, but wherever there was a gap in the clouds, the colors were vivid.
There had been a little bit of rain overnight. It was a gloomy morning. The wind was at 12 – 15 knots and the anchorage was quite rocky. It never failed to surprise us at how little fetch it took for wind waves to form. Unlike Thursday, there wasn’t much boat traffic. It seemed most boaters had hunkered down for the windstorm. The temperature was warm enough for shorts in the morning, but as the day progressed, it cooled down. By the late afternoon, we were wearing sweaters. Due to the thick cloud cover, the solar panels only produced 1/3 of the electricity that they normally generated.
Continue readingThanksgiving — Thursday, November 27, 2025. Dawn.
When we’d wandered around town during our last stint in Marsh Harbour, we got the sense that the Bahamians didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. We never saw Thanksgiving or even autumn-ish decorations. The one and only sign that we’d seen with the word “Thanksgiving” was at a hotel, saying they would be serving a traditional Thanksgiving meal in the restaurant today.
As we did our morning chores and school work, a conga line of boats came into the anchorage. Inclement weather was coming, and the winds were forecast to shift several times. This was one of the few anchorages in the area that had good protection from the several directions that the wind was forecast come from. As we’d already mentioned, some were fast boats, probably just here for the holiday weekend. Some of them were slower cruising boats, many just arriving for the beginning of the season. And some were already in the general area, coming here for the storm. The wind had already begun to shift, and the anchorage was mildly uncomfortable from the combination of wind waves and wakes from all the boat traffic.
Christi didn’t feel like cooking, so we went out for lunch. Now that Eric was feeling better, we wanted to scope out the big grocery store, so we decided to find a restaurant near that store and then we’d go grocery shopping after lunch. Fynn from Tiki Tour joined us. We took the dinghy to the closest public dock and followed a nearby road south for about a mile.
The buildings we passed were mostly industrial.
