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Hiking to a Viewpoint in Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, The Bahamas

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Sunrise on Tuesday, February 17

Our friends on Tiki Tour were at an anchorage a couple miles away from us. This morning, they sent a text saying that they were coming over to visit in their dinghy. Since we’d last seen them, they’d picked up another set of guests, who were a family that used to cruise on a boat called Betsy. Betsy came, too. Sadly, their timing was terrible because all of the other families in the anchorage had taken their dinghies to town today to meet the supply ship. The other families would have been thrilled to see Tiki and Betsy again.

Tiki arrived armed with paint because they’d heard through the grapevine that their sign had faded. The first thing they did was refresh their sign.

Then they loaned us their paint and Eric painted a Kosmos sign.

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Hanging Out at Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, The Bahamas

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Sunday, February 15 — We puttered around the boat in the morning and early afternoon. Eric and Keith put out both flopper stoppers. There was only mild motion, so one would have been enough for today, but the forecast said that on Monday, the wind would change directions to be from the south. We knew that on Monday, we’d need the second flopper stopper, so Eric was proactive.

We had an early dinner and headed over to the beach at about 1630. One couple was already there and the rest of the boats arrived shortly after. Keith played with the kids while Eric and Christi chatted with the adults. It was a really nice visit. We had been planning to clean the bottom here, but were warned that there were aggressive bull sharks in this anchorage. The bottom can certainly wait! Here was the sunset.

And a shot of the beach looking the other direction

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Transit to Hog Cay, The Ragged Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Friday, February 13

We again got up early, got Kosmos ready to go, and lifted anchor at about 0610. This was another one of those passages where we couldn’t make a direct line because the majority of the area was too shallow, and the only access was through the narrow Comer Channel (the yellow line on the map below was the route we took from Georgetown to Flamingo Cay. The channel was cut through the light area around the southwest side of Great Exuma Island).

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Transit to Georgetown to Renew Visas

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Thursday, February 12 — This morning, we were up early, quickly got Kosmos ready to go, and lifted anchor at about 0600. Here was the dawn shortly before sunrise.

We were sad to be leaving this anchorage so quickly — it was a calm and looked like it would be a lovely place to spend a few days. Also, The No Foreign Land app said a couple of the other boats in the anchorage were family boats, so it would have been nice to meet them. But we had important matters to attend to. Here was the sun rising as we were underway.

It was a smooth ride most of the way to Georgetown. Here was a shot of the scenery along the way.

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Passages to Elizabeth Harbour, Staniel Cay and Little Bay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Tuesday, February 10 – First thing this morning, Eric and Keith pulled up anchor and did a passage to Georgetown. Tiki Tour and Zimovia also went. It was pretty windy, and the sailboats put out their spinnakers. Eric and Keith held a sheet in front of the boat to pretend they were sailing, too. The passage was pretty good overall because the wind was coming from the back and it was following seas. But when it came time to enter Elizabeth Harbour, they had to make a turn, putting the waves on their beam. The big waves made the conditions uncomfortable while entering the harbor. While it was by no means rough compared to other places we’ve been, it was rough by Bahamaian standards. All three boats dropped anchor in the southern part of the harbor, by Sand Dollar beach.

Keith went to the beach on the ocean side and played in the big waves with Tiki Tour and Zimovia, then went over to Zimovia to hang out later in the day. Eric did laundry and watched the sunset.

Meanwhile, in the evening, Christi’s caught a red-eye flight to Baltimore, which left from the new terminal. The terminal was again mostly empty, which made it easy to find comfortable seating while waiting to board. Her flight to Baltimore was uneventful, but she didn’t sleep at all.

On Wednesday, Eric and Keith got up at crack of dawn to head to Staniel Cay to pick Christi up. The plan was to spend the night in Staniel Cay, then continue on to The Ragged Islands the next day. Here was a shot of the anchorage taken as they were getting ready to go — Kosmos was surrounded by Nordhavns!

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