Wednesday, January 21 — This morning we woke up to find that the weather was not what was forecast. It was supposed to be nice, but it was actually windy and rainy. We’d planned to go hiking with Bogumila on shore, but hiking was canceled due to the rain.

The kids in our anchorage got together onboard one of the boats for about 45-minutes, then all the catamarans left to go to an anchorage called Rudder Cut Cay. We didn’t follow because the pass into Rudder was one of those shallow passes that we could only go through at high tide — and high tide had already passed.

After they left, the wind shifted direction by a little bit, and the anchorage went back to uncomfortable. We were worried about how much the wind would pick up overnight and how uncomfortable it may get. Not long after we’d started to worry about how uncomfortable it was going to get, Tiki Tour texted that they weren’t going to go all the way to Rudder tonight. They were going to spend the night in an anchorage called Musha Cay. They’d finish the trek to Rudder Cay tomorrow.

Eric checked to make sure it was a suitable route/anchorage for us and that we could get there before dark. It was two hour ride, so if we hurried, we could make it in time. And there would be nothing scary between White Point and Musha. On an instant whim, we decided to follow Tiki Tour. We immediately got boat ready and left as quickly as we could. Since we’d never gotten the dinghy down, it went fast. We pulled up anchor at 1500.

After we left, we realized that we hadn’t taken a single photo of the White Point anchorage. We were waiting for better weather, and better weather never happened. From what we could see from the anchorage, it appeared to be all vacant land that looked the same as the rest of the Exumas.

We arrived at 1700. Visually speaking, it was a lovely anchorage, with several scenic islands around it. According to the internet, Musha Cay was a fancy private resort island owned by David Copperfield. Per the website “David Copperfield… uses Musha Cay as a test lab for his creative pursuits, then shares these unexpected adventures with you and your guests.”

On Monday, January 19, the anchorage was rolly and uncomfortable when we woke up. The discomfort this morning wasn’t a surprise — last night, the forecast had said the wind would shift northwest to the northeast and the wind was currently in the middle of its shift. As a side note, since we’ve been here, the wind has been constantly shifting and has come from every direction. We’ve done a 360 around our anchor.

When Eric checked the forecast this morning, it had changed to rainy and windy from this direction all day. It started to drizzle shortly after the weather check. We immediately got Kosmos ready to go to sea. We belabored a bit about which anchorage to go to. The closest protected anchorage was just a bit south, just above the blue dot on the map below. Bogumilia had told us they were going there and Eric wanted to join them since it looked so protected. But three other kid boats were at the spot where the blue dot was, and Eric ultimately decided we should go to where there were more families. Even if it wasn’t as protected as the anchorage to the north of it, it wouldn’t be a bad anchorage in these winds. We believe the spot was called White Point.

We got the dinghy up, brought the flopper stopper in, and pulled up anchor at 0830. It took 45-minutes to get to the destination.The red dot was Blackpoint, the blue dot White Point. Christi was feeling good when she got up, but the burst of activity needed to get Kosmos deployed tuckered her out.

Dawn on Wednesday, January 14

Keith had a fever of 101 when he woke up, so we skipped school and let him rest. We had a quiet day onboard. By the late afternoon, his fever was gone and he was feeling better. In the evening, we went over to Mellow Puff for a short visit. They had a large cockpit area, and we made sure to sit far enough away from them, and down wind of them, to ensure that we didn’t expose them to any germs. It was a nice visit. This was Mellow Puff at dusk.