IN NASSAU FOR PICK UP

Paul and I enjoy a day of leisure on Rose Island, outside of Nassau harbour

Home made bread in Chub Cay Marina (we had power, used the oven)

We arrived for lunch right beside Daruma (Dave and Traci Lockhart's catamaran) at Rose Island on Sat. We had a wonderful day of travel from Chub Cay Marina to Nassau. It was a short 2 ½ hour crossing. We are so happy to have waited for the “weather window”. Nassau Harbour Control is called in advance before we entered and went right to the other side to continue. This Harbour is an extremely busy harbour and it is necessary to call and get permission to enter AND to leave again. There were 7 huge cruise ships in port and The Nassau Harbour Control may ask anyone entering (or leaving) to wait until a ship has passed. Bahamas is an English island so they all have strong accents which we are getting used to. Of course, we Canadians have such strong accents ourselves, we've been told!

Rose Island is a beautiful little anchourage that we picked because it is easy to just go back into Nassau to pick up guests. Rose Island offers a lovely beach, good snorkeling on a reef, great place to kayak and a cool sandbar that one can walk a couple of kilometres on. Traci and I went on a very long kayak ride along the shore and saw a Sting Ray. They are so shy, hard to get close to one. The four of us walked along the beach. Swimming and snorkeling sure beats snowblowing! On Wednesday we will come right back to Rose Island for two more nights with Ben and Sam. Friends of theirs arrive on Sat. and we will head to the Exumas on Sunday morning or later as the wind is not that great again. No one can have a schedule in the Bahamas! First stop will be Allen's Cay, where there are large Iguanas that come out of the bushes in hope you've saved scraps of lettuce and compost. We tear these in bite size pieces and they come to eat these. After this for an hour or so we will motor over to Norman's Cay for the night. Plans can be changed... so we will blog again when we can. It was 30 degrees C but with the wind chill it felt like only 29 degrees! Internet is scarce.

Coyaba from the water at Rose Island
Daruma in the background, our neighbours

Paul on the sandbar at low tide

We shopped in Nassau just at the grocery store to pick up produce. We came away happy! Prices not too bad either. But it was rush hour, and so many small cars with small horns, beep beep constantly, like all the small cars are talking to each other. We are provisioned for Ben and Sam and their friends.
Tomorrow we leave as soon as Ben and Sam arrive, we will tour around Friday afternoon again here as we wait for Tyler and Jalyn. We will pay for the internet again on Fri afternoon for the 24 hours. We will check our emails then.

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. Helen Miller