Day 180, Thursday December 19th

Day 180, Thursday December 19th

Ross fishing underway

Today we are heading to Treasure Cay. We need to get moving in the morning asthe tide is dropping with low tide around 3:00. We need the assistance of some water under the keel to exit Hopetown Harbour and to get into Treasure Cay harbour. We drop the mooring ball by around 9 and have an excellent 4 hour sail. The wind is a bit behind us so it is a pretty flat ride with about 13 knots of wind. We are able to maneuver around all the shallows without tacking.  Ross fishes while underway, however nothing hops on the line.

The boys are not too interested in the sailing part. We call them up as we are coming into port assuming they would be interested, however they are both below sleeping!



The great haircut attempt

Once we get to Treasure Cay, Ross tries to give Dawson a much needed haircut, however the barber razor we have brought does not get enough electrical juice to work, so Julie pulls out the scissors to hack away some of the length.



Julie caught a fish, trying to net sunglasses in background

Ross recovering sunglasses

Julie decides to do some fishing from the boat and catches just a small sucker.  This is one of the ones that tag a ride on sharks and other fish.  It has decided to try to tag along with the sailboat.  It has a suction cup on its head.  While Ross is helping to get the fish off the hook, off course his sunglasses fall into the water so he has to go diving for them.  It is almost dark so he does not have much time.  The days here are about 11 hours of daylight.  It gets dark by 5:30, and the sun rises at about 6:30. 
Soon the days will start getting longer.
 Ross is successful recovering his sunglasses.

Ross and Blake with full moon

We also have been watching for the dolphin, but it is not in the harbour tonight.  We head in to shore for pizza night.  There is a pizza oven at the bar and once a week they cook pizzas and have music.  There is quite a crowd forming and the pizza is good.  They probably had abot 100 people tonight which is the most people we have seen anywhere.  It is a full moon and as we are leaving the moon shines on the pool and the palm trees and it reminds us how lucky we are to be here enjoying the warm weather.

Cheers
Julie and Dawson