3/08/19 blog – Friends leave; Eleuthera here we come
All good things must come to an end. We said goodbye to Little Farmer’s Cay and headed for Staniel Cay, 20 miles away. Our friends were to catch a plane out the next morning to go home so we wanted to make sure we got to the marina in time for them to pack.
Fortunately, though the wind was still up some, the chop wasn’t uncomfortable.
Of course, there are the ever-present nurse sharks
who like all the free handouts from the fish cleaning station. These guys were hanging out underneath our boat.
We needed a few provisions so we walked into “town”
to one of the little groceries there. They had a rather interesting police
sign. The grocery story is the small building beyond the police station. 
Saturday morning, Greg & Sheila Cobb bid us farewell as they headed for
home & we headed out for parts unknown. Their taxi to the airport was a golf cart with a luggage shelf. Nice.
After our friends left, we enjoyed a nice rainbow and then dropped the lines & headed 30 miles north to a quiet little anchorage that ended up being a bit rolly. The sunrise was nice, though.
We decided that we really didn’t like all of the rolling so we picked up the anchor and moved another 12 miles to an anchorage at Highbourne Cay which was much better and which provided a nice staging location for our next offshore 30 mile passage.
Monday morning, with lighter winds forecast, we left Highbourne Cay in the Exuma island chain & headed for Eleuthera. The tide was flowing briskly as we went through the cut. Fortunately, it was going against us so we had more steerage control than if we were going with the strong current.
Enroute, we saw what appeared to be a small waterspout. It was quite unusual.
As we approached Cape Eleuthera, there was quite a bit of activity on the VHF radio. A dive boat was headed for the same location we were. They had a lady who we later learned, had a heart attack while diving and died. She floated to the surface where they picked her up, administered CPR and oxygen and were able to revive her! Wow. They flew her to Nassau but we don’t know how she fared.
The marina here is nicely protected and quite charming. It should be a good place to weather the next front which is forecast to hit us on sunrise on Wednesday. We’ll see how that goes!
This view from the back of our boat is of a sunset with the sun dropping behind some far-off rain.
Interesting effect.
