North Atlantic Ocean

From the Berry Islands to Nassau to Exumas

Berry Islands - When we had to leave the Berry's I feel like I was being ripped away from something I had just fallen so in love with. On Easter weekend, we went for a hike up a little coral mountain to Hoffman's Cay Blue Hole where we jumped 20 feet off a cliff. The blue hold was breathtaking. There were 1000s of little jelly fish everywhere that don't sting you & were the size of a piece of dirt. The waters were crystal clear & 5-10 feet below the surface the water was shockingly warm! Under the cliff we jumped off was natural caves that would blow your mind! Continuing our hike through the mountain we found this tiny abandoned house with a big chimney made out of coral rock. Surrounding the house was a fence line made out of the coral rock as well. I couldn't imagine the amount of work that went into building this. Once we got back to boat, the biggest storm we have had yet hit us. Lighting, thunder and up to 40 MPH winds gusting at us for hours. We sat back to watch the show, played some chest and drank a lot of wine 😁

The next day, we decided to finally do some spearfishing!! We were right off the shoreline in beautiful reefs with fish everywhere to shoot. It felt like we were in an aquarium. Carson missed a shot on a black grouper and I missed one on a yellowfin grouper. We were a little rusty 🤪 Not to make excuses or anything.. but we were having some mask issues that day. We bought new masks we were testing out and at times they were completely fogged trying to shoot at fish. Soon after I blindingly took a nice shot on a hogfish and school master snapper. That is more than enough fish to eat for the next several days so we called it a day. We decided at that point it was time to go check out Flo's Conch Shack where our friend Raf told us to go get some rum punches. This place was literally a guys house! You serve yourself rum punches out of his fridge in the back and hangout on his back porch. BEST conch fritters we have ever had! We met some really cool people there that have been going to these islands for 25+ years. Some of the came over that night to give us a nice bottle of rum to wish us luck on our journeys. People out here are unbelievably genuine.

Next morning, we set sail for Nassau to provision. Nice easy 30 mile sail. We didn't have much time here to explore because we had to take off to the Exumas a couple days later to keep working our way down South. Provisioning there was quite the adventure. We had to drive our dinghy a couple miles to one of the nicest marinas we have ever seen. We were definitely a little out of place on our little dinghy around millions of dollars boats. We then had to one wheel a mile down a bumpy two lane road to the fresh market which ended up being like a really expensive whole foods! I was shocked by how nice it was. We had to pack all of our groceries in 4 backpacks and one wheel them down the sketchy road we came from to get back on the dinghy to then dinghy ride back to the boat. Honestly, we loved every minute of it.

Yesterday, we had one of the best sails to the Exumas. Took us 5-6 hours and we sailed 50 miles. We kept working during the sail, did some wedding planning, read a book, fished (no luck this time) and made a bomb lasagna for dinner. We will be here for a few weeks as we have several visitors flying out!!!Read more