Day 182, Saturday, December 21

Day 182, Saturday, December 21

We are moving on today and heading to Guana Cay which is only about 8 miles away.  Head wind so we motor the whole way.  We leave Treasure Cay on high tide as it is shallow in the canal.  The dolphin has not come to visit while we have been here which was disappointing as we Ross and Blake to get a close up view of a dolphin in the wild.  Oh well. 

We decide to dock at Orchid Bay as there are high winds predicted from a direction we won’t get much protection from at anchor.  Orchid Bay is a fairly nice place, but is in receivership.  There are only about 3 boats moored at the 60 slips.  Quite sad.

Garden starting to grow

Blake enjoying the best sand beach ever!

We head over to the Atlantic ocean via Nippers Restaurant and have a beer, go for a swim, toss around a football (well Blake and Ross tossed the ball around).  We last a couple hours and head back to the boat.  A power boat with 3 youths on it was in dock and they were cleaning the conch and lobsters they had caught.  One lobster was quite large.  They had about 8 conch so it was neat to watch him get the animal out.  They said it was a small catch and they were just getting them for their own consumption.  The lobsters they had speared.  There are no claws on the lobsters, it is only the tails that get harvested.  We have been told that all the shark attacks have taken place when spear fisherman don’t get their victims out of the water quick enough so spear fishing does not hold an attraction for us at all.

After dinner, the boys head over to the local bars Nippers, the Shack and Grabbers to see if there is any excitement going on.  They find some kiwi’s to chum with and have an expensive, long drinking evening that resulted in Blake’s iphone getting into the pool with him being thrown in.  When they got back to the boat, they did put the phone in rice, but it did not look very good.

Sorry not many pics.  Blake did have a good one of the conch etc.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson