Nassau – 6 kilometres walked, 2 miles in dinghy
We started the day early, leaving well before 8am for the grocery store to provision the boat for the upcoming week. After getting what we needed we returned to the boat to unload, but as we were riding in the dinghy we saw a stingray leap out of the water, right in front of us, maybe three feet in the air, in a perfect arc, then plunged back into the water. We’d seen glimpses of rays doing this a few times, but never a full view up close. It was incredible.
Our friend Ruth met us at Starbucks for a long coffee date and we told her about our experiences in Eleuthera and our plans for the coming week. We are starting to feel like locals here, grocery shopping, meeting friends for coffee, doing everything locals do except pay bills and go to work.
The small anchorage which we’d previously thought was crowded with three boats now had no less than a dozen anchored vessels, many close together. With the winds shifting north our rudder was getting dangerously close to the shallow water so we repositioned ourselves to give us more depth and lay out another 30 feet of chain as a precaution. What you don’t want is for your anchor to slip in the middle of the night and find yourself blown into shore, frantic in your skivvies trying to motor out of the sand and mud.
I topped up our water tanks from the spare jugs while Ana sanded and stained the wooden rails on the companionway and epoxied some cracks and holes that had appeared on the boat in various places, one on the stern going back to Bimini where we smashed the dinghy into the boat while trying to unground ourselves. We also did a run to Potters Cay to fill up our water jugs from the public tap and met a few of the ragtag but friendly cast of characters who hang around there.
The rest of the day was quiet – we had a long and long overdue call with Kate and Ben, made pasta and fried sweet plantains for dinner, watched part of a movie, then called it a night.
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