Category Archives: Wildlife

The Manatee Discovery Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

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On Wednesday, May 21, it was a hazy morning, obscuring the colors of dawn.

In preparation for the haul out, Eric spent the morning stowing away gear that normally lives on the deck. Moving it all was quite a project. 

Once school and morning chores were done, we drove over to the Manatee Discovery Center. While the center itself looked like it was relatively new, it was located next to an electricity plant in an older, lower socioeconomic area.

We were pleased to find out that there was no admission fee, though donations were accepted. The upstairs was closed today for a private event, but the upstairs had traveling art exhibits and beautiful views, so we didn’t miss any important information about manatees.

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Lunch at Xuma’s, Highbourne Cay, Exuma Islands, Bahamas

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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.

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Welcome to Highbourne Cay, Exuma Islands, Bahamas

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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.

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Keith’s Perspective on the Exuma Islands, Bahamas/Le point de vue de Keith sur les îles Exuma, Bahamas

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This week has been fun. On Saturday, mom and dad finished cleaning the bottom of the boat, then we went to town for lunch. We went to all the restaurants and all of them were closed except for the yacht club. 

Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi maman et papa ont fini le nettoyage du dessous du bateau et nous sommes allés au village pour le déjeuner. On est allé à tous les restaurants, mais seulement le yatch club était ouvert. 

On Sunday, we moved to a new anchorage called Cambridge Cay to meet up with our friends from Baja, Oceananigans. We went over to the beach with them and some of their friends, Kepler and Cosmic Connection, and had a fun time. On Monday, we snorkeled around a rock near the boat. We saw a few fish, and even a baby turtle. In the evening, we went to the beach again. 

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