Sunrise on Tuesday, March 24
First thing this morning, we went to the airport to say goodbye to Tiki Tour’s guest, Angela (who was going home) and their crew member, Keira (who was going on a short trip). They unloaded the luggage at the dock, but we weren’t allowed to leave our dinghies on the dock, so we beached them and walked over to the airport.
Group shot before they boarded the plane.
Continue readingSaturday, February 14 – Friday, February 20: This week has been fun. On Saturday, we moved to Hog Cay. Once we got there, Mom made some food, then we went to shore with the other families. On Sunday, we headed over to the beach in the afternoon again. When we got back, we moved to a different spot in the anchorage that was more protected.
Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi, nous sommes allés à Hog Cay. Quant on est arrivé, maman a cuisiné, puis nous sommes allés à terre avec l’autre famille. Dimanche après-midi, nous sommes allés à la plage. Quand nous sommes revenus, on a bougé à une autre partie dans la zone d’ancrage qui était plus protégé.
Dawn on Monday, March 23
And the sunrise.
The wind had shifted again, and it was a little rolly in the anchorage this morning.
Continue readingThe anchorage at dawn on Sunday, March 22
When we got up, we were pleased to see that the forecast had been correct — the wind had shifted so that anchoring at Rachel’s Bubble Bath would be comfortable today. As soon as we got up, we immediately started getting Kosmos ready to go to sea. We pulled up anchor at 0715, as the sun was rising. It took us about an hour and 20-minutes to get to the anchorage on Compass Cay that was next to Rachel’s Bubble Bath. We had to go through the narrow, shallow channel while the current was strong, which was stressful, but we followed our previous line and all went smoothly. We immediately got dinghy down and made breakfast.
After breakfast, we met the crew from Tiki Tour on shore and trekked up the short saltwater river to the Bubble Bath.
Thanks to the recent big winds, the waves were huge. They were even coming over the left side of the big rock — in our previous visits, we’d only seen the waves come over the right side of the rock.
Continue readingFriday, March 20, continued... In the afternoon, the kids from Tiki and Zimovia came over to play a game called Munchkin. After a while, they moved to Zimovia, which had a bigger table and better seating than Kosmos.
After they left, Eric, Christi and Clean Cup went snorkeling with another family in the anchorage called Sail La Vie. Christi and Eric had briefly met Sail La Vie one of the times we were in Big Major and they seemed like a nice family. We invited Clean Cup to join us since the Clean Cup kids were close in age to the Sail La Vie kids.
The motor had dried out and seemed to be working fine now, so Eric and Christi took their own dinghy — but warned the other two families that a motor failure was possible and to be prepared to rescue them. They left very early just in case there was an emergency. The motor seemed to work fine, which was a relief. Since they were so early, they waited on the sandbar in the middle of The Horseshoe for the other two families to arrive.
