December
28...Monday
Morning! Well, two of the boats are gone. The cat that
came in late was called "Euphora" and the sailboat that was here
first was called "Shoestring".
They were talking this morning at 7 am and Euphora was going to head out
the cut and check it out.
He reported back to Shoestring that "the
waves are about 30 degrees off [the track they were heading....that means
pounded sideways"] and the winds were 20 on the nose less their speed of 5
knots ...so 15 knots".
But as Shoestring replied, "that's too
much pounding to travel 35 miles in a day...we're slow" [oh yeah, we hear
ya'] so they are staying inside as well. We will likely catch up to them
later.
The
Montreal cat "Belle Vie" is still sitting here...the dog had to go to
shore again. This dog is a huge black lab. I can't imagine how much fun it is
for him/her to be stuck on a boat and not allowed to swim. We watched him/her
sitting on the bottom step waiting to get his/her feet wiped off before being
allowed up on the deck. Right now they are running a generator which is like
listening to a lawnmower running over uneven ground.
So
after breakfast we headed out and ran the VPR gauntlet down to ...where are
we? Oh yeah, Lee Stocking Island. It was a 5 hour run to go about 7 miles. @5
on the nose for us too and pounding into the southwest swells. We heard Euphora
call Shoestring about an hour ago. They were coming back inside!! Go
figure!!! Shoestring is down at Rat Cay.
We considered going that far...another 3 miles bit decided that this little bay
here was secluded and protected enough from the swells s we dropped anchor
around 12:30. We have no intention of testing the ocean today.
We
dropped the anchor three times, only because we wanted to get far enough into
the little bay to get out of the rocking.
Then we watched some HUGE stingrays...at least 8 of then, swimming around
the boat so Rick went into the water to "check the anchor" and follow
them around.
After
lunch we both went into the water for about 2 hours checking the shoreline and
the rock formations. This is beautiful
little bay. There is a tent on shore and
after we anchored a couple of sea kayaks came into the bay an up to the shore.
SO did tour boats all afternoon! Everyone was getting off, going ashore up the
hill to see the ocean?
The
unfortunate part is that 1] we are just inside the bay and out of sight of the
cell tower, so I will send the phone up the mast to se if I can get internet.
2]
As we anchored and got settled anther cat pulled in behind us. Sigh... no
cockpit privacy ...oh, well...
3]
We went in just a little too far before low tide and we are probably going to
be sitting on the bottom for part of the night...rats... not like we've never
done that before. And the sand underneath us is very clean, no rocks, so we
will be fine.
Hey...
sending the phone up the flag halyard worked!!! Who knew!!
Oh
cool, a shark just swam past us...not a nurse shark, so no swimming tonight!
Tomorrow
will tell us if we can get to Georgetown. Winds are down to 10 knots in here
but who knows what the ocean still looks like.
Have
a good sleep! We will!
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