Rude Awakenings and Ragged Island Fun

The beautiful sunset and fresh slipper lobster on the southern tip of Long Island had us in love with our magical lives… But that didn’t last long. The wind switched and the boat started rocking, just a little bit though and I was nearly rocked to sleep, weary to the bones from my day of diving.

Then the rocking and rolling got a little worse, then a little worse, then even worse, till finally we were being thrown out of bed!! Why!?! Argh, just want to go to Sleep!!!!

Sleeping was out of the question now though, instead we were running a fire drill around the boat trying to store everything before it crashed to the floor.

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Long Island Action

It’s said among sailors to always make your plans in pencil for as soon as you’ve got it figured out, your liable to change it, if the weather doesn’t change it for you first. We had planned a longer stay in Crooked Island before heading on to Great Inagua, our staging spot to make it through the windward channel for Cuba’s south coast. But it was through chats with S/V Mars, dismay over the hurricane damage to French Wells, forecasts for the winds, and looking at our timeline that we decided to make a new plan.

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Crooked Island Adventures

It’d been a longer than planned stay in the populated Exumas but full of adventure, fun, and good friends that left us with no regrets of the time spent there.

Our friends on S/V Jasaru had finally gotten the right part and were back to being fully operational. Their charter was over and now were making plans for their passage to Puerto Rico, going the opposite way of us. The first stop was the same so we buddy boated over to Calabash bay, Long Island with them. A spot we’d been before but never gets old, the classic Bahamian anchorage with White sand beach and the crystal blue water that seems special made for this part of the world. It also serves as the northern most anchorage on the very Long Island and makes a good staging spot to wrap around the island to the more remote out islands. Which is exactly where we were headed! Continue reading “Crooked Island Adventures”