Little Farmer's Cay to Black Point

We were looking forward to visiting Little Farmer's Cay & watching the locals put on a turtle feeding show for the tourists. Unfortunately, there were no tourist boats there when we arrived. Still, it was nice to visit.

These kids showed us everything in their store and worked hard at trying to get us to buy stuff from them.

And why was it the chicken wanted to cross the road??????

After our brief sojourn in town, we returned to Samba & decided to see if we could find a calmer anchorage. The wind was blowing quite a bit and the wave action was pretty perky.

Our first try was Jack's Bay. The anchor didn't set well & Jim confirmed by diving on it that we should retry. We moved to a different spot in the bay and tried again. Though the anchor bit, it didn't seem right. Jim dove on it and confirmed that just the tip had penetrated a rocky bottom. We left it there for a while & he dove on it again. & decided to find a new spot. 

When things don't feel or seem right, we don't like to take chances.

We moved a couple of miles up the bay to a spot outside a  little cove and this time, the anchor did great so we stayed &, of course, took the dinghy in to check out the little cove.

This little cruiser's picnic place was a good spot to put our Tevas on before looking for a trail to take us to the Atlantic side of the island.

When we got to the Atlantic side, we were shocked at the amount of plastic debris that had washed up on this tiny beach. It apparently came through the narrow inlet and never left. Ughhhhh!

GREEN FLASH!

Yay! We finally captured a green flash. When you zoom in on the tiny piece of sun, you can see it.

Carol found this on Google regarding the green flash phenomenon:

It the result of  looking at the sun through a greater and greater thickness of atmosphere as you look lower and lower in the sky. Water vapor in the atmosphere absorbs the yellow and orange colors in white sunlight and air molecules scatter the violet light. That leaves the red and blue-green light to travel directly toward you. Near the horizon, the sun's light is highly bent or refracted. It's as though there are 2 suns - a red one and a blue-green one - partially covering each other. The red one is always closest to the horizon so when it sets or before it rises, you see only the blue-green disk - the green flash.

Now we both know what the green flash is!

Friday morning since we only had a few miles to go to get to Black Point, we took our time and had some pancakes.

As we approached the Black Point harbor, we were shocked at the number of boats at anchor here. We counted 35 but there may have been more. Carol is looking for a spot to drop the anchor.

Our primary purpose for anchoring here was to get some groceries before continuing our trip north. This is just about the only grocery store for maybe 50 miles. The sign is a little sad but they had most of the things we needed.

Though a bit run down, Black Point Settlement is one of the cleanest little towns we've seen in the Bahamas. The people are all friendly and very proud of their settlement.

Police Station

Clinic (?)

The other shock was how many very large and very full tourist boats come here for lunch. These are just a few of the massive beasts that roared into the bay. These 3 came from  Paradise Island in Nassau, some 85 miles away!

Though not all the boats were quite this large, we counted between 12 and 15 boats that arrived for lunch at this dock or another one down the way a little.

For our appetizer tonight, Carol cracked our conch and made some amazing conch fritters. After we enjoyed them, we headed in to a cute little restaurant for dinner. They let us eat at their special gazebo. which was high above the deck and the restaurant.