Docking for Dollars Special

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We are now at the dock at Bluff House, Green Turtle Cay. They have a special here during the winter months that any purchases that you make in the bar, restaurant, gift shop, on laundry tokens or ice will be credited towards your dockage.. We have had some great meals and will spend a few days here. We also wanted to pull in to hook up to the 110V so that I could run the equalize function on our charger, as the house batteries have not been getting up to full charge from the solar, wind and engine chargers. We will know if that worked once we go out to the anchorage again.

windy

I am so glad to be on a mooring ball today-winds are over 30 miles per hour all day but is comfy now in the harbor except for the howling noise.Yesterday was beautiful weather-Brendel`s Dive Shop had a Christmas feast potluck attended by over 100 people with cruisers and islanders,Brendel supplied lots of Goombay Smash punch and music and we had a great time hearing peoples stories and nibbling all the food.Christmas eve we were on a huge catamaran owned by some very nice people from England-25 people on it seemed like nothing,they had a hot tub onboard even.We got to touch base there with team Dream catcher and hope to bump into them again down the line.We plan on staying still until jan. 1 for junkanoo then go south.The watermaker is working great so all is good with being stuck onboard today.

Goombay Smash !!

We rented a golf cart today and visited the other end of the island and the town of New Plymouth. One of our stops was Miss Emily's Blue Bee Bar for the world famous Goombay Smash, a wonderful rum drink. After a couple of those the day went goodbye and we didn't make it to any of the cruiser activities that we had planned to attend tonight. Oh well maybe tomorrow , or maybe another trip to Miss Emily's!

Green Turtle Cay

Green Turtle Club

We are now at anchor in White Sound, Green Turtle Cay. We are in front of the Green Turtle club and Bluff House resorts. This is a very secure anchorage, protected from just about any direction, and we will be here or in Black Sound just a couple of miles South of here until after New Years day and the we will head towards Treasure Cay for a while. We are going out tonight for dinner and to listen to a local band, The Gully Roosters. We are still having too much fun!

Lazy day

Yesterday when we returned from the beach a wind storm came up very fast with zero to 30 knots of wind in seconds.This led to several boats coming in quick for safety.The marina ( http://www.spanishcay.com/marina.htm ) expected a quiet day but had to send a call out for help and we all ended up in the bar for drinks,cruising conversation and very tasty food-fresh grouper for us.At the end of our meal the manager couple brought out 2 cheesecakes in a martini glass with lighted candles for our birth-aversay.This was truly a wonderful way to spend it.Today still finds a few brief showers and wind but most cruisers left as they have to meet family at airports.I was glad for the rest day as they had a hard time heading out with brisk winds.I made Mike his favorite mincemeat Christmas cookies then we explored another beach and I carried a beautiful conch shell until the conch showed its head and snorted at me-we put it back in the water after that.

12/18/10 Spanish Cay

Mikes birthday and our 39th anniversary today.We upped anchor and went to Spanish Cay Marina.The immigration lady couldn`t have been friendlier and we got the coveted 180 day allowed stay that we sought along with the included fishing permit.The marina staff are top notch and only a few boats-3 here-off season.After checking in we walked  to a beach right out of a movie set-crystal clear turquoise water,conch shells allover,huge starfish,beautiful empty guesthouses-there  are on 6 permanent homes here.A walk about the island led us to more beaches,a small airstrip,finches,humming birds,lizards-80 degrees-breezy sun.  .

Little Bhama Banks 12/17/10

Awakened to crystal clear turquoise water-nobody else in sight-heavenly-cool breeze needing a light fleece that was shed by noon.After receiving some shortwave weather we upped anchor and motor sailed in light winds seeing only dolphins,flying fish and 2 motor yachts the whole 50 miles to an anchorage outside Spanish Cay.It was 12-25 feet everywhere with the Explorer charts leading the way.For our power boat friends we used 7 gallons of diesel from Lake Worth to Mangrove Cay.