Day 187, Thursday December 26th, Boxing Day
A quiet day today, we clean a bit then head to shore so Ross
can run and we visit Joe and Tami who have offered to sell us some gas for our
outboard. Little Harbour location is
great as a hop off point to the Eleuthera’s, but not a good spot to stay for a
couple days before a passage as there are no supplies. Everything was damp from yesterdays rain and
there is no laundry or even a spot to buy a quart of milk. Luckily we had supplied up fairly well in
Marsh Harbour on the 23rd so should last until the 29th
when we will stock up in Nassau.
The foundry here is closed again so we cannot get a tour
today unfortunately. At 1:00 we head
out of the harbour as it is high tide and we want to get an early start south
tomorrow and we can only depart from this harbour at high tide which is early
afternoon for the next couple of days.
We anchor out at Lynyard Cay which is about 2 miles away and there are 4
boats at anchor. Within a couple of
hours there are another 7 boats for a total of 11 boats anchoring out waiting
to make the passage south the next day.
We are surprised at the number of boats as typically it has been very
quiet here. Ross naps as he has a
headache from whacking his head on the doorways. The doorways are about 5 foot 8 and his 6
foot frame does not always keep track of where it does not fit. During Ross’s nap we head over to visit Magic
Carpet the boat anchored next to us. We had met the boat in a couple of other anchorages
over the last couple of weeks and had talked to the owners when they were in Little
Harbour on the 24th.
Magic Carpet is a 60 year old Sparks and Stephens Wooden
Yawl. The couple cruise the Bahamas and
Caribbean with her in the winter and run charters with her in the summer out of
Martha’s Vineyard. She is a beautiful boat
who has been kept in orginal conditions by her 6 owners. We get a tour of her and are impressed by both
the boat as well as the work her owners put in to keep her in such great
conditions.
We get back to the boat just after Ross got up, have an
excellent dinner of Christmas leftovers, a coffee a game of crib and off to
bed.
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
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