Big Majors anchorage (24 10.999 076 27.609) to Little Farmers Cay (23 57 249 /076 19 016)

We hauled our anchor up under a beautiful sky this morning at 8:45am and were at the Ocean Club and attached to a mooring by 1:00pm. We’d kept trying to hail them on Channel 16 but nobody answered. When we got in the dinghy and went over to the dock, Terry (owner of Ocean Club) was down on the dock cleaning fish. He’d been out fishing and told us to make ourselves at home so we told him we’d taken 3 of his moorings (Azaya, Aurora and us) then headed up the hill to walk around. I’d noticed that the stingrays still hang out at the dock under the fish-cleaning table – there were 3 of them of various sizes.

We walked over to the marina on the tip of the island and had Kaliks and tonic and chatted briefly with Roosevelt Nixon, then back to the market and made reservations at the Ocean Club for lunch tomorrow with Ernestine. There’s weather moving in and we all decided that we’d rather be on the boats when it came through than on shore. Lunch was a happy medium to do Internet and have some of Ernestine’s delicious cooking. While there we ran into RJ the woodcarver. I think he’d had a Kalik (local beer) or two or three… but was still as friendly as I remembered him. He decided to give us the grand tour from the dock area to his woodcarving shop and introduced us to all the local fauna of mango trees, almond trees, and various teas and cotton that grew there. Azaya and Aurora both bought a carved statuette of a Bahama mama – gotta help out the economy: )

I made pulled pork sandwiches for dinner and they turned out quite tasty. I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of making this dish earlier!