Allen’s Cay

Saturday, January 15, 2011


It’s another windy day. I noticed that we never shifted position when the tide changed last night, thanks to the wind. I could barely pick up Chris Parker on SSB channel 4045 this morning and then Highborne weather came on channel 6 (VHF) at 7:30am. It’s nice to finally get some weather. I never heard Darcy come on this morning but heard other boats calling her at the park office. Seems we had that problem last year too.


Stu (Georgia E) came by this morning to go over favorite places we’ve been to in the Exumas. He’s going to scout out some places before his wife gets here to see where to take her. So we pointed out some must see areas that we like to return to. It was a lazy morning and I didn’t do much. Wayne took a nap trying to get rid of a headache. I considered taking the dingy to shore but with the way it acts up and the winds, I ended up just looking at charts and looking about at the scenery and snapping pictures. In the afternoon we went ashore and walked the south perimeter to the other side of the island with Mary Clare and Axel. I was amazed at how few iguanas came over to greet us, but with the cooler weather, they’re all probably slow to move. When we returned to the dinghies and were sitting and chatting on the beach, we watched several boats come in and anchor. It was amazing to watch This one fellow. It came zipping in and charged right into the middle of the sandbar, weaved across it then did the same thing coming back to this side of the channel. There are two islands separated by a span of water. In the middle of the water is a large sandbar with a channel on both sides by each island that the boats travel through and anchor off. The captain wanted to investigate the sandbar instead of staying in either channel. It was interesting to watch. Zoom then clunk, weave through sand, then zoom, clunk, weave. We saw Aurora come into the anchorage around 4pm, then dingied back to the boats after Axel took me in his dingy to see our anchor and how we hooked under a metal rod.  I love their glass bottomed dinghy!

I made some pulled pork and we took that over to Azaya’s for sundowners with Aurora and Georgia E. Another lovely evening shared with other wonderful travelers in this beautiful blue/green water place called the Exumas.