The Days Go By

White Sound, Green Turtle Cay,
26 46.63 N 077 20.14 W

We spent two glorious days on Manjack Cay. For nature, that's the nicest place we found in the Abacos. One can take the dinghy into a small beach, belonging to the island's resident, Bill. Bill welcomes visitors. From there one takes trails to swimming beaches on the ocean side or the bay side of the island. One can also take the dinghy through a shallow area between islands to yet another beach, offering splendid isolation and snorkeling. Along the way, we found a great big conch. We picked him up. Now his meat sit in our fridge. We'll make chowder from it. The entrails I've been using for bait. Still haven't caught a fish yet, no matter what I try.

Now we are back in White Sound on Green Turtle Cay. This is the same place we spent some nice days last year. In the evening, Libby and I play Bananagrams, a word game that we like a lot. It was last year, our friends Pat and Walt aboard Wings of Eagles introduced us to that game and gave us the copy of the game.

There are three other Westsails with us in White Sound. Friends all around.

Last night we had some strong thunderstorms come through with a passing cold front. The winds weren't to strong here, but they spun us around in a complete circle. Several boats dragged their anchors. That always causes a Chinese fire drill. Anyhow, we lost a lot of sleep sitting up on anchor watch.

The bottom here in White Sound is not good for anchor holding. Nearby, on Guano Cay, they had winds with gusts up to 60 knots and hail. I'm sure that caused a lot of excitement among the boats anchored there.

Tonight, another front will pass, perhaps we'll have a repeat of those storms.

I can't wait to take my sister Nancy to New Plymouth on Green Turtle Cay and to Hopetown on Elboy Cay. Those places are just so darned cute. She'll love them. She arrives next week.