GeorgeTown to Royal Harbour Eleuthera

Broke free of the anchor this morning, and left George TOwn at noon. We are on our way to Little Farmer's Cay or Lee Stocking Island. Rick is fishing, Todd is sleeping and I'm listening to the stereo, cuz we're sailing!!! No noise! Rosson Nauticuss is behind us and if he catches us we'll all have dinner together. Either fish or pork chops. :)

Todd was looking forward to eating this little one

But we ate this one instead!

Beacon Won - the charter ship the Iguana researches use

Wow ...two days of awesome sailing and we are at Staniel Cay. No fish...just barracuda. Thunderstorm both nights but we made it through A little deja vu here at Staniel. We're in the same spot where we lost our main 2 years ago. But this time the winds were low..16-20 and the cover was on! Nauticuss is still sailing with us, but the winds are changing so he may change his sailing plans, too. So nice to have silence on the boat...except for the stereo.

Spent yesterday with Ross in Big Majors anchorage. We helped him cut up some material for hs project and then we all came back to OG for dinner and dice and we taught Todd to play Euchre. Bruce from Beacon Won came by for a quick visit. We will miss he iguanas this year.
This morning we said goodbye to ROss. He is heading back south for a month and we are making our way to Abacos. Wish we could keep him with us, Carol, but he can't go back yet.:( WIll post pics when we stop for the night.

So update on the fish....Todd dropped the filleting knife in the water while he was learning how to do this. And while they were contemplating how to retrieve it, a hammerhead shark ambled in around the boat! He must have been 10 feet long!! Couldn't get a decent picture because of the angle of the sun and we're NOT going in to get the knife tonight!!! Will wait until morning!!!

Safely anchored in Allen's Cay. Had to motor sail all day :( no wind! But Todd caught a barracuda which we had every intention of eating but it fell out of the boat when we got hit sideways by a wave. So he caught a mahi-mahi. Sorry Ross, we called you but we were already 20 miles north and you were probably out of range...tried 16 /68.

Right now Todd is putzing around in the very clear very warm very shallow water here and Rick is collecting more fronds for his baskets. The iguanas are stalking him hoping he has food. Sorry boys and girls...nothing today. We all swam into the beach because the dinghy motor won't work and it's too much work to drop it, paddle in, paddle back and hoist it again.

SO...mahi-mahi and veggies and salad for supper. Then we check the charts to see how far we can go tomorrow.. Probably only Royal Harbour in Eleuthera...stormy weather Sunday and Monday, but we'll see, then on to the Abacos.