Thursday, March 1, 2012 Great Guans to Cave Cay

Black Point, Great Guana Cay to Cave Cay (32 54.310/76 16.75)

Axel & Wayne out fishing in the dinghy

 Turned on the SSB to listen to Chris Parker and thought shucks – lets try the big SSB. After plugging in the power cord I could hear Chris Parker! I thought woosh! Lets tune him in better. Then lost the signal and never could get the radio to work again or find the right frequency. Arrrggghhhhhhhhh!!!! So I listened to the weather on the small hand set. The prognosis for the coming week is dismal! After Sunday there are some wicked fronts coming through with 20-35 knot winds expected for almost a week! Ugh… Axel kayaked over to find out about leaving today/tomorrow and I guess we’re all for it. I don’t like the idea of sitting in Georgetown with 250 boats during regatta week with storms coming through but where ever we are, we’re going to be for a bit. So we packed up the boat and headed out to look for an anchorage around Galliot’s Cut and ended up a little further near Cave Cay Cut. Either will shorten our time getting to Georgetown tomorrow. It felt funny to go past Little Farmer’s Cay and not stop in. We could hear Terry on the Radio with people looking for moorings. He sounds in better spirits this year (not so good spirits last time we were here) so I’m thinking all is well there! Wayne really wants to pull into Emerald Bay for a night to gas, water and shower. We’ll see. The day winds are supposed to be 10-15ESE the direction we’re going then they’re supposed to increase tomorrow night to 20 which will kick up the seas. If we go into Emerald we may be stuck there (actually I probably wouldn’t mind except for the cost) for a while.

Looking a little south from our anchorage we can see Musha Cay – nightmare last time we were there – I was boogying in my sleep to Cher, etal…ALL night long Hopefully it’s a little quieter here! 6 boats are here and I’m thinking they’re all staging for the big blow. I’m not sure how many are getting ready to leave tomorrow for Georgetown but if they don’t go tomorrow, the next chance will be Sunday – the window we were looking at before hearing the weather this morning. The window narrows.

Axel and Wayne took Azaya’s dinghy out fishing in the cut. They didn’t catch anything, lost a lure and tangled a fishing line in the propeller. Mary came by in the Kayak and we went over to Lansing Cay to see if we could find some more sand dollars. They were all over the place last year. This year, we didn’t see one, but it was fun to kayak over there again. We found a couple milky conch shells, a cowrie shell and a few other ones but not a single sand dollar. The boat on the island was still up on its stand and the mushroom rock further out on the sand bar still was impressive to look at in the setting sun at low tide. I blew my conch horn at sunset and it’s now time for some tuna salad for dinner.