February 7 -9, 2017 Guana Cay

February 7, 2017

9:30am- Leaving Treasure Cay to explore Great Guiana Cay. 

10:30am- We went by this big stone in the water sticking out called ...what elapse but "Stone Rock"

 

Steve caught a small Jack. 

11:00am-  As we were approaching Great Guana Cay, we noticed an island with people on this beach.  All of a sudden the Coast Guard helicopter circled the island and was asking on VHF if anyone on the island had a radio and  needed help. No one responded so they asked radio contact from any vessels going by.  Of course Steve responded.  They asked him to stand by.  After 5 minutes, they landed on the island and we're talking to the people on the beach.  Turns out that someone wrote HELP with stones and made a big bomb fire. Probably as a joke.  The Coast Guard erase the "help" and flew away. 

12:00pm- Arrived in Grand Guana Cay. We walked around and ended up at Nippers.  What an ocean view they have from their bar.  We met Americans,  Richard and Carole who live in NJ but own a place on this Cay. Had a beer with them and then went back to the boat for a late lunch.

2:00pm-  Had lunch and then walked around town.  Very nice Cay.

5:30pm-While dinner was coming I did some painting and Steve read.

6:30- Had dinner and relaxed on the boat.  The half moon is bright tonight.

February 8, 2017

7:00am-  what can I say....another gorgeous day.  I went for a nice long beach walk while Steve was sleeping.  I like the high tides in the morning since it is easier to get on the ladder at the dock from your dinghy.




This is a well know poisonous tree in the Bahamas.  You cannot touch it.  Apparently, it is worse that poison ivy.

 

10:00am- Steve made water before heading to Marsh Harbour. I will be taking a flight out from there on Friday to visit my new grandson. Steve greets Gunter on board the same day where they will be sailing for the week until Sue comes aboard.

11:30am- Left Great. Guiana a cay and heading to Marsh Harbor. 

2:30am-Arrived in Marsh Harbor after a great sail.

3:00pm- Went I town and walked around.  We stopped for a drink at Mangoes.  We met Pete who told us to visit his bar in Little Harbor and to stop in for a drink.  He bought us another round of drinks. We will have to make sure to go there in March. 

5:00pm- While in town, Steve picked up a plate to fix the barbecue.  He worked on it until dinner.  Seeing that we do not have Wi-Fi, we watched 3 episodes of Soprano.

February 9, 2017

There was a real heavy dew this morning and it was very humid.  We went in town to pick up a few groceries.  How ironic that we bumped into Terry and John who took the ferry over for the day.  We ended up having lunch together. 

3:00pm- We went to BTC to top off our telephone plan since we could not use our phone. We realized we had a lot of data however it does not get transferred onto the phone plan.  The data plan expires March 1 so we used up some data by watching 3 episodes of Homeland later on after dinner. 

What a unique sunset. 

Tomorrow ( (Friday the 10th), I will taking a plane from the Bahamas and going to meet my new grandson in Yardley, Pa.  Steve will be picking up Gunter and sailing off with him for the week.  Then they will be picking up his wife, Sue, next Friday and sail with them for another week.  I won't be blogging for 2 weeks since I will be too busy hugging my grandson but will be back the 24th to continue our journey.