Whew, What a Day

At Sea
26 43.13 N 077 18.17 W

We had a blast at the Green Turtle Heritage Day. It began with a sail across The Whale Passage. Conditions were calm and the passage was no problem.

Arriving at Green Turtle, we had a bit of a problem anchoring. The anchor wouldn't bite on the grassy bottom. We tried the plow, then the danforth, then the plow again. I put on my diving gear, swam out and dove on the anchor to bury it manually. No good. Finally, we moved to a more sandy spot, then I dove on the anchor, and this time it bit in.

The festival? It was almost too much to describe. We loved all of it. The pre school children, the conch cracking contest, the people watching, the talk about bush medicine, lunch consisting of conch burgers and grouper burgers, the conch blowing contest, and the talk about early Caribbean history. Most of all, we like the junkanoo parade in the evening. The music and the costumes and the people were wonderful. We repositinoed ourselves to watch the parade pass us four times. We took lots of pictures and video. You'll have to wait several weeks however before we post them.

This morning, we repaired the jib furler, and prepared Tarwathie for an offshore passage. We are heading for The Whale right now, in 90 minutes we'll have exited the Bahamas via The Whale Channel and we'll be out to sea. It is 500 miles to Beaufort, NC. The weather reports are favorable for at least 5 days. Yippee; look out world, here we come.

Jim is excited. This will be his first offshore experience.