We were encouraged to wake up to a beautiful sunrise and calm, flat seas. This bodes well for our 50 mile crossing to Egg Island.
Hardly 5 miles out, Jim snagged a barracuda – bummer! In the Bahamas, they tend to carry ciguatera toxin so we don’t keep them.
Sadly, no other fish came nibbling on our lures all day!
We had a cute little hitch hiker for a little while.
Notice the smooth water as we approach Egg Island.
Once we reached Egg Island, it was a little before 1:00 so
we decided to continue on to The Bluffs settlement and anchorage on the north
end of Eleuthera. This would provide us with shelter from some coming heavy
winds that were due within 24 hours.
Once past the Egg Island cut, the waters become incredibly shallow for miles.
The approach to our anchorage was only about 2 to 3 feet
under our keel so we proceeded slowly. However, we made it without incident and Jim dove on the
anchor to confirm it set well enough to hold us through the coming big blow.
Once secure, we lowered the dinghy and headed to the
settlement to see what was there.
Notice the conch shells adorning this wall.
The settlement was pretty run down and trashy. Not a place we would care to return to. Many homes were either never completed or were simply allowed to deteriorate. Sad.
At the edge of the settlement we noticed some kids had put
up a milk crate basketball goal on the edge of the road. Ingenious.
The shore line on the way back to the boat is rugged and
pockmarked with small caves where the rock had been eroded by wave action.
Thursday, we will move on down this coast to another
sheltered anchorage to prepare for our next interesting adventure - - the
dreaded “Current Cut”.
We’ll let you know how preparations for that evolve.
