Thursday, January 8, 2015

We are at Spanish Wells on Elethuera Island

We sailed, well motored sailed from Tues through the night to arrive Wed. Sailing through the night is not always boring, there are a lot of cruise ships and freighters and they were all around us, within 1-2 miles. Now 1-2 miles seems like a lot and it is, but at night they are intimidating.  We are making water, running the washing machine and occasionally the air conditioner, although we seem to be getting acclimated to the heat. 
We found a good anchorage near Royal Harbor, Greg dove the anchor to make sure its set. It's very important to dive the anchor, the boat next to us dragged during the night and had to find another spot.
Chopper has become a Salty Dog! He is jumping in the water to swim with us, his goal is to go ashore to pee on anything and everything. We are still working on a designated potty spot on the stern, he holds it about 24 hrs before he just has to go.
There are coral reefs on the East side of the island called "The Devil's backbone" , eek.  There also is a wreck from 1970, not sure if you can dive it, I will check with the local dive shop. There is a cold front moving through and the winds are going to get high the next few days, so we might not be able to go.
I want to dive one of the blue holes in the Bahamas, they are caves that filled with water, exciting.
We snorkeled ashore for Chopper to irrigate the local bushes.
There's lots of sea urchins, beautiful orange, red ,and pinkish/purple coral. I found a large sand dollar and a huge starfish larger than my head. I showed Greg, but left them to live. The water is a turquoise color, clear and you just float easily.
Tonight we are on a mooring ball in Spanish Wells. We took a trip to the local grocery store, very little fresh veggies, paper products are expensive as we were told by our friends Lisa and Gary, previous owners of the boat. I stopped in a local seafood store hoping to get fresh lobster since Spanish Wells is a lobster community. They only had fresh frozen, so I got grouper and conch, should be interesting.....

2 comments:

  1. Wow! Sounds like you are having an adventure! Thanks for posting these updates! I love how descriptive you are! ☺

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  2. Sounds like you are living the dream!
    Hope Chopper adjusts to the boat.
    How come you don't catch your own lobsters??

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