Bahamas -Northbound

Tuesday, February 27 - We anchored at Black Point on the other side of the anchorage from our trip south, this was directly across from the restaurants, about a 2 minute dinghy ride! We went to Black Point Yacht Club for happy hour and saw Ellis and Lisa from Bobbytrap, who we met in George Town. We hung out with them and new friends they met in Staniel Cay. A DJ started playing 80’s music and the dancing begun! It was a fun night.

Wednesday, February 28 - We went to the laundromat and managed to stuff 4 weeks of sheets and towels into 2 machines! Unfortunately the towels did not dry completely but only took 20 minutes to finish drying on the boat lines. We met a young couple from Maine, Karl and Connor, and talked to them for a long time and invited them to our boat for drinks later. They are both consulting in healthcare from their boat and have been cruising part-time for 7 years!

Thursday, February 29 - We took a hike up the island to see a blow hole. The weather is much calmer from the trip down. A lot more boats are coming to the anchorage and it’s crowded. We went to Hightide for Happy Hour where one of the boats organized a cruiser get together and Pauline from one of the boats played guitar and sang, she was quite good, beautiful voice. Then the lady that organized it got up and asked for people to introduce themselves. That was nice as it helped people connect. We mentioned we planned to sail to Maine during the introductions and Kevin talked to someone who is also planning to go and they traded contact information. I talked to the organizer of the event, who was also organizing an event 2 weeks from now, and neither of us cared much for George Town as it was over organized, but yet here she was organizing events in Black Point haha! Maybe it’s the scale of things that’s different.

Friday, March 1 - We now have 2 full months plus of cruising under our belts. We found a place to get free water! A pipe, for lack of a better term, on the side of the road that was obviously government installed. We saw someone filling jugs on our way back from our hike yesterday and Kevin decided to give it a try. A lot more work than GT because he had to anchor out from a rocky beach and carry the jugs up and down stairs and over the rocks. The full jugs are much too heavy for me so he carried both.

Saturday, March 2 - We went for a long walk on the island with the dogs looking for a produce stand and a liquor store but didn’t find either. Then went to Deshmon’s for pizza. There were several Bahamians hanging around outside all drinking beer. It was 11:30 and Kevin made a joke about about beer for breakfast and one replied it was lunch! Kevin walks inside and the only woman outside asked if we needed help. When ordering the pizza we were told it would take an hour as she would need to make the dough; so we placed our order then took the dogs back to the boat. Once back at Deshmon’s Lisa and Ellis walked in and we had lunch with them. That evening we went to Karl and Conner’s boat for a glass of wine. For dinner we went to Lorraine’s for the BBQ buffet and met a nice couple from Massachusetts. They gave us lots of suggestions for where to sail in New England and Maine. They asked if we had a heater on board and out response was only at a marina, they said have blankets ready! 😳 When the fog comes in it gets cold, even in August. Karl and Connor said the boat stays cool because the water is so cold. I may need to retrieve warmer clothes when we go home to get our stuff from storage!Leia mais