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Anchored between the Majors |
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A favourite anchorage for cruisers between Big Major Spot and Little Major Spot, close to Staniel Cay. |
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Calm Anchorage? |
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Between the Majors. Not so calm this day. It was blowing up to 25 knots and many boats dragged anchor overnight. |
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Shopping at Isles General Store |
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Carefullly at low tide. Navigating "Mini Dream On" through the shallows to Isles Supermarket. |
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Looking out onto the Bahama Banks |
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The magical colours of The Bahamas |
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"Schucks, That's It, lets's sail to Nassau" said Art. |
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Art and Joan Schuck onboard That's It are towed out of the Majors anchorage into safe water on the Bahamas Banks to sail to Nassau. Their engine seized in the Majors and the nearest replacement was in Nassau. |
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Pipe Cay |
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A magical part of Pipe Creek. We found the perfect beach. |
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Dream On at Pipe Cay |
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Anchored on her own in 12 feet of clear water. |
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Pipe Cay |
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Looking across Pipe Creek to Wild Tamarind Cay |
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Pipe Cay |
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Looking north to Compass Cay |
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Exploring Pipe Cay by kayak |
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Clear water |
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Looking down from the mast at our anchor chain in 20 foot of water. |
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Pipe Creek all to ourselves |
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Pipe Creek all to ourselves |
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Pipe Creek all to ourselves |
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Turquoise blues |
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The water really is that colour. |
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Up the mast |
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View from above. |
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Our first conch |
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Having at last found a conch, the next problem was how to get into it. Geoff tries his hand and tools at breaking in. |
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First lobster catch |
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Delicious with butter and garlic! |
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Fishing success |
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We perfected our teamwork fishing technique. Grouper, grunts, and a trigger fish. |
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A balancing act |
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We anchored off Joe Cay, still in Pipe Creek and set off to explore. |
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Inside Joe Cay |
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Inside Joe Cay is a high water lagoon of white sand and mangrove. |
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Young mangrove in Joe Cay |
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Looking over mangrove in Joe Cay |
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Cave on Joe Cay |
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White sandstone cliffs with many caves. |
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Samson Cay Marina |
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In good company at this up market marina. (We anchored outside for a lunch break). |
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Black Point, Great Guana Cay |
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A very large anchorage on the west side of the island and a popular stopover. |
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Laundrette at Black Point |
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This has to be the best laundrette we have ever come across. It has the best view over the harbour and its own dinghy dock. |
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Waterfront at Black Point with weekly mailboat |
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The mailboat |
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The lifeline to the outlying islands. The trick is to visit just after the mailboat has restocked the grocery shelves. |
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Little Farmer's Cay |
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We picked up one of Ocean Cabin's mooring buoys, instead of anchoring, due to the strong current. |
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Little Farmer's Cay - Ocean Cabin |
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Operating hours, Bahama style |
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Lee Stocking Island |
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Owned by the Perry Institue for Marine Science and funded partly by NOAA. A wonderful island for research scientists to base themselves while conducting research on conch, grouper and lobster populations as well as coral. |
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Beach on Leaf Cay |
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North of Lee Stocking Island. A 10 foot hammerhead shark was seen in this area. |
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Sails up |
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Most of our journey so far has been head into prevailing winds with very few sailing opportunities. This was a good sailing day. |
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Sailing from Lee Stocking to Black Cay |
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Barracuda catch |
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This greedy barracuda snatched the bait just as we left Black Cay. We had to cut him loose and leave him with the hook as they are not safe to eat. |
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