Sunday Jan 21 - We are at anchor in Royal Harbour, on Royal ISland - part of Eleuthera.
All the weather sites say a cloudy day today and no wind to speak of until tonight. It's tempting to keep moving but we've never been here so we will explore the shore today. THere are some beaches to explore although the odds of finding sea beans is astronomical..they all end up in Long Island waiting for Susan DOnkervoort to rescue them and pick up all the stuff that fell off the shelves in that NOT-SO-PLEASANT crossing. C-SOul are parked behind. There are about 15 boats here...10 of whom were in the pack yesterday.
As we were talking to C-Soul, "Miss Molly" a British sailboat, came up to "welcome us to the harbour" and let us know that the boat behind him had caught fire the day before with a 7-year old girl trapped in the quarter berth..Dad got her out but burned his face and eyes and spent overnight in the Hospital in Spanish Wells. Guess we didn't have such a bad day after all.
We had 4-5 foot swells with a1-2 foot chop on the beam. We left Lynyard Cay, at 7:00 amd and had our anchor down 3:45 pm -9 hours. Not so bad really. So we'll just see who knows what they're talking about when it comes to the forecast.
And Todd Smethurst caught a barracuda!!!
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The Catch!
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| Getting ready to check the anchor- any excuse! |
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| Live sea urchin |
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| Live starfish |
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| Checking C-Soul's anchor too |
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| OtherGoose resting after the crossing- She did most of the work |
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Reeling it in
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