Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted. When I was in the mood I didn’t have the time, and when I had the time I wasn’t in the mood. Go figure.
The two coincided today- my mood and time, that is. Dave and I are sitting on Wrecker’s deck enjoying some yummy conch fritters and fruity rum drinks while we steal their WiFi so Dave can attend a meeting. The BTC tower (their cell service) went down sometime today, so we couldn’t connect to anything from Indigo Lady, who is anchored between Gun Point and Ridley Head. So here we are and I’m killing time, productively.
Wreckers is the restaurant for Yacht Haven Marina in Spanish Wells, St. George’s Cay Bahamas (part of the Eleuthra string of islands, at the northwest end). We’ve actually been here quite a while. Let me back up and fill you in.
Dave and I and my parents flew from Boston to Nassau April 6th, stayed the night, then caught the AM flight to Great Harbor Cay (Berry Islands) to rejoin Indigo Lady on the 7th. Yay! We were in the marina 5 days doing boat work, then moved to anchor off Bullocks Harbor on the west end of the island for a couple of days. We moved around to Great Harbor (below the Stirrup Cays, owned by Royal Caribbean and Norwegian cruise lines) for another couple of nights. On Easter Sunday we crossed to the west side of the southern end of Great Abaco Island and anchored in Cross Harbor (not a harbor in the real sense) for the night. Monday we headed southwest-ish to the Eleuthra chain. We anchored off Royal Island for the night and the next day headed into Spanish Wells harbor and picked up a mooring for 6 nights. Great town with enough stuff to do ashore as the wind blew hard. We enjoyed several lunches ashore and a couple of take-out dinners. We toured the island by golf cart, swam at the beach on the north end of the island, got a tour of the tiny historical museum, and relaxed. The night of the 25th we left the mooring and picked up a dockside spot at the marina to make it easy (and dry) to get my folks ashore for their flight next day. We availed ourselves of the laundry and the gorgeous shower facilities.
While still on the mooring we met Peter who stopped by to ask about our solar electric catamaran. Small world- he has a solar electric catamaran, built that way, not converted like ours. Small world! His was on the lift in the boatyard while work was done to it, by both him and some folks he hired to help. We shared dinner at Wreckers one night, and we made him pizza aboard Lady another night. He is a kindred spirits, so we have spent a bit of time with him in this area, but more about that in another post, because Dave’s meeting is almost done.
We saw my folks off on the 26th. Their trip home entailed a ferry-taxi-plane-taxi-taxi-plane-bus-car over two days. A ferry and a taxi got them to North Eleuthra Airport. A taxi got them to their Nassau hotel that night and another back to the Nassau airport the next morning. They flew to Boston, took the bus to Portsmouth and drove our car to their house (we left it there at the start of the trip).
And I’m out of time! I’ll give you all some more detail about our experiences in a future post. Until then, enjoy the sunset picture, stay safe, and take care of each other!
Life on Lady 