We left Exuma Park and Bum’s Rest at 9:45 a.m. for Georgetown. Wayne has no interest in Georgetown, we can’t be this close and not go there. So they will spend some time in Staniel Cay and Black Point and we will meet up with them in a week or so. Since we got a late start, we thought we’d stay in Staniel Cay, but soon realized that we could make Little Farmer’s Cay, which is only 38 miles from Georgetown.
We set our waypoints: Warderick Bore to Bell Island Bore to Rocky Dundas to Harvey Cay to Little Farmer Cay.
At 2 p.m. we passed Black Point and were glad we decided to keep moving. We called around 3 p.m. to Ocean Cabin for a mooring. We were going to stop for fuel and water, but Farmer’s Cay Yacht Club was out of fuel. It’s a good thing we have our jerry cans!
It was low tide, so Terry from Ocean Cabin told us to go to oven rock and head for the Batelco tower. While pulling up the dinghy, I lost my Exuma Land and Sea Park visor that I just bought two days ago. I was so mad! We had to grab the mooring, so couldn’t stop to get it. By the time Chuck got the mooring line hooked and jumped in the dinghy to get it, it was gone. Bummer.
He rowed back to the boat, we put the motor on the dinghy and went to pay for our mooring. We took two large flex bags of trash to shore. It was $4 per large bag of trash. We gladly dropped our $8 in the box. We were glad to get rid of the trash!
We took the short walk to Oasis convenience store. The screen door was locked. We went to Ocean Cabin and paid for the mooring and the lady who works there runs the convenience store. We needed bread, at the minimum. So she walked back to the store with us. Much to her surprise, and ours, she just received a shipment of goods and had fresh lettuce, tomatoes and green peppers. We bought some and a loaf of bread and some chocolate chip cookies. It was $11.70. Not bad, considering we paid for than $5 just for a loaf of frozen sandwich bread at Highbourne!
We met Larry from Lapidus. He is from Oklahoma City. He was traveling with another boat, but had a broken motor mount. And the other night in the storm, he threw out an anchor as instructed by Terry. The lines crossed, his mooring line chafed and cut, he lost his mooring and his boat dragged until the anchor caught. Poor guy!
We headed back to the boat and I made a big salad, sautéed some shrimp and parmesan noodles. We had cookies and coffee for dessert.
Winds from the North tonight and we’re right in line for it, so was on mooring watch until 1 a.m. , then Chuck was up. We had hoped to go to Georgetown today, but winds are 21-23 in the harbor, with white caps, so we’re staying put today. Chris Parker’s forecast for tomorrow looks better, so we’ll venture out to Georgetown tomorrow.
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