Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Allen’s Cay to Warderick Wells Exumas Park

Made breakfast while we were waiting to hear from Exumas Park. Wayne got the dinghy up on the davits and we headed out of Allen’s on a course to Normans. I followed Azaya and it looks like the chart plotter is working well for them. We got a relay from Blown Away from Warderick Wells. They don’t have a spot in the north-mooring field so we took one by Emerald Rock (about in the middle of the island). After revising our route we headed for Warderick Wells with a course plotted to Emerald Rock (still in the park but the area is open to the West and south - not good protection from the fronts).

We have mooring ball E6 and Azaya has E4. We could hear Blue Pearl switching mooring fields from the south anchorage to the north field on the outer moorings reserved for larger vessels as we headed towards the park. They thought they saw both our boats on one of their hikes and hailed us, but we later decided it couldn’t have been us. We were too far out yet. We did run into them at the park headquarters. We all were checking in at the same time. It was good to see them again. I forgot to tell them how well our new pump was and to thank them all again for their help. It sounds like they’re planning on staying another day though so I’ll have to thank them then. They don’t seem to be responding to their radio. It just got hectic with everyone checking in at the same time and my dropping off a ton of books too.

We had burgers on Azaya this evening and I made some pineapple pudding for desert. We thought they were better burgers than you could get on Norman’s Cay. Definitely! The stars are all out in their wondrous glory and the first quarter moon is lighting up the sandy bottom of this amazing aqua water, even in the dark it looks amazingly clear and aqua right down to the white sand with coral interspersed about and in the sand ripples.