Saturday, March 9, 2013

Day 145 Mar 8 118 mi Bluff House Resort & Marina Green Turtle Cay Bahamas

Sunrise at 6:35AM....winds 10-17 kts...out of the North....seas...2-4 ft....swells...NE..1-4 ft...We left Old Bahama Bay Marina at the West End 7AM.....our mission today.....reach Green Turtle Cay before the next front comes in.....


Ready to leave at 1st Light
 
 
Flying the Bahama Flag
 
 
 
Today we will cross the Little Bahama Bank which is shallow and you must read your charts and keep a sharp eye on the water.  Well we can do that....Captain has his chartplotter and I'm following the route on the I-Pad.  Saddi has the paper charts.....so we can do this.  Out we go to the seas and turn north toward Indian Cay Channel....we are at the lat/long....but are in open water.....no markers of any kind and we are to turn East and go thru a channel without any red/green markers....Oh Me!
We are at high tide...meaning about 9 feet....so lets go....slow speed Captain.....
 

 
We can still see the West End
 
 
Well Capt we made it....good job Saddi.....we are headed to Mangrove Cay 21.1 nm away.
 
 
Captain in moving now
 
 
I'll just ride here
 
 
Mangrove Cay at 9AM
 
 
Could see the bottom at 12 feet
 
 
We are on Open water...no land to be seen
 
 
Next lat/long....Little Sale Cay
 
 
Smooth Ride Today...headed East
 
 
Sale Cay Rocks at 11:30AM
 
 
Toward Carter Bank
 
 
Beautiful Day
 
 
Crab Cay 12:30PM
 
 
Those are Waves breaking over the Reef
 
 
Just look at the water
 
 
Manjack Cay
 
 
Green Turtle Cay
 
 
Coming into White Sound 2PM
 
 
Slip 24 Bluff House Resort and Marina
 
 
Our View
 
 
The Resort
 
Our friends from Pier 11 Green Turtle Bay Marina are flying in today to spend a week with us.  We were not sure we would get here because of the fronts from the USA moving across the Bahamas but we made it and arrived before them.  They flew into Treasure Cay and will come by Ferry to Green Turtle Cay.....so we'll watch
 
 
Here comes the Ferry
 
 
There is Janice
 
 
Tim needs a cold beer
 
 
Unloaded.....better go see them
 
 
Checked In
 
 
Their Villa
 
 
Saddi Time with Coach and Wendy
 
 
Tim and Janice
 
 
Coach I need alittle one on one
 
 
Off to the Beach for Sunset
 
 
The Beach
  
 
Sunset is comming
 
 
The Group
 
 
Sunset is coming
 
 
The Girls
 
 
We are about there
 
 
Very Pretty
 
 
Back up the steep hill...thought I was at Julie's in the BVI
 
 
 
 
 

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