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Passage From Highbourne Cay, Exuma Islands, Bahamas to West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
The sunrise on Monday, May 12 was blocked by low atmospheric clouds.
And the rest of the sky turned an odd violet-ish color.
We’d decided to move around the corner, where it was more protected from the wind/wind chop (the blue dot on the map that we’d posted upon arrival at Highbourne Cay). We had to bring in the flopper stopper no matter what, as they weren’t meant for use in motion. Even though it was a short ride, we decided it was best to bring up the dinghy, too.
Continue readingLunch at Xuma’s, Highbourne Cay, Exuma Islands, Bahamas
Continued… When Christi and Keith returned to the dinghy dock, they saw that Kosmopolitan wasn’t there. They walked out to the southwest edge of the marina to watch for Eric’s arrival. Looking north, we could see the marina, the little shallow bay next to it, and the sea wall that separates them. The marina was clearly a dredged portion of the little bay.
Looking south, we could see that the beach on between Xuma’s and this point was lined with chairs.
Welcome to Highbourne Cay, Exuma Islands, Bahamas
Sunrise on Sunday, May 11, 2025
Last night, we’d gotten a text from a fellow cruiser letting us know that the little market at Highbourne Cay Resort and Marina, which was a little north of Shroud Cay, had eggs in stock. We’d decided to move to Highbourne Cay this morning so we could buy some eggs. We really wanted to have eggs onboard because we were planning to leave on a passage from the Bahamas to Florida tomorrow (Monday). Eggs were a great passage food as they were easy to cook and digest.
We were up early and got the boat ready to go. We pulled up anchor at 0700, which was high tide. We had intended to follow the same track out of the anchorage as we’d taken in, but a boat was anchored in the middle of our track. We had to go into shallow water to get around it. We only had ½ foot of water under us, so had it been slack or low tide, we would have been stuck inside the anchorage until the tide rose.
Continue readingBack to the Washing Machine, Shroud Cay, Exuma Islands, Bahamas
Dawn on Saturday, May 10
Today we went back to the Washing Machine at 1500 with the two families in the northern anchorage. Yesterday, we were so fixated on all the turtles at the mouth of the northern anchorage that we didn’t take one of the mouth itself.
