{"id":22285,"date":"2026-05-12T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/?p=22285"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:37:14","slug":"back-to-rachels-bubble-bath-on-compass-cay-exuma-islands-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/12\/back-to-rachels-bubble-bath-on-compass-cay-exuma-islands-the-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Rachel’s Bubble Bath on Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dawn on Saturday, January 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This morning, we brought in paravane pole and snubber, then pulled up anchor at around 0730 and headed to Compass Cay.<\/a> Last time, we came down the ocean side of the island. This morning, winds were 12 \u2013 18 knots from the east with gusts to 24-knots, which meant the ocean would be an uncomfortable ride. Eric decided to take the lagoon side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in the more protected waters of the lagoon, it was a bit of a lurchy ride. We couldn’t take the most direct route because it was too shallow, but we were able to utilize deeper channels (that had probably been dredged), which eventually got us there. The majority of the channels were plenty wide and deep for Kosmos… until the last one. The channel directly into Compass Cay from the lagoon side was very narrow and barely deep enough for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reason we’d left so early this morning was to ensure we went through this channel near high tide for maximum depth clearance, and on the rising tide, so that if we grounded we’d have a hope of getting free.\u00a0Here was what it looked like from the pilot house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like the channel into Palm Cay Marina<\/a>, the channel was marked by pylons, though the pylons were much farther apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little more than halfway there! The anchorage was at the top of the channel, just beyond the scope of this image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eric was nervous and stressed throughout the entire ride in the channel, but all went fine and we reached the anchorage with no problems. We dropped anchor at about 1045. Given the wind speed\/direction, we’d anticipated it would be rolly and uncomfortable. The wind was supposed to slowly start calming down at 1300, and we expected that the anchorage would be calm by the evening. But as we’d said before, if we wanted to take the lagoon route, we couldn’t wait until later in the day to arrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, the rolliness was worse than expected. This was a popular channel with the speed boats, so there was a lot of fast boat traffic creating uncomfortable wakes that compounded the discomfort. Eric also thought the fact that the current was against the wind was adding to the discomfort and that it would be more comfortable when the current flipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric put out the snubber and port flopper stopper with the new Venetian blind attachment right away. Christi immediately got started on making lunch. An hour later it was still uncomfortable, and Eric put out the other flopper stopper. After we finished eating lunch, we escaped the rolliness by going to Rachel\u2019s Bubble Bath<\/a>. Here was Eric and Keith landing the dinghy onshore near the mouth of the channel that we walked up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the view looking southwest down the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The waves were much bigger today than they had been last time<\/a>. But the waves were coming from the side instead of head on, so many of the waves were crashing sideways against the rocks instead coming over the rocks. Despite the bigger waves, there was not as much water pouring in as last time. It was also a lower tide than last time, so that probably affected how much water was pouring over, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once we’d had our fill of playing in the water, we headed back to Kosmos. Much to our surprise, the snubber line was twisted around the anchor chain! We’ve never seen that happen before. Since the current was so strong, Eric was unable to manually fix it because he couldn’t get enough slack in the line to maneuver it. He wound up running the wing engine to get enough power to move the boat forward enough to create some slack. Even after he’s straightened it out, the snubber still was not sitting quite right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Eric had predicted, the anchorage did calm down as the day progressed and it was not bad by sunset. The sunset was mostly blocked by ominous looking clouds. It did rain not long after the below photo was taken. While it was a relatively hard rain, the storm passed over us quickly, so we didn’t get as good of a wash down as we’d hoped. The squall had certainly helped with the salt, but Kosmos was still salty.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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