Last night we went to sleep on an absolutely flat blanket of blue water.. barely a breeze. The weather has been comfortable the whole trip so far, yesterday evening was the first time we seemed hot on the boat,. Our day journey through the mangroves in the open boats provided a lot of sun, so with a light sunburn combined with the lack of wind our feeling of heat is understandable. We slept fine though, in fact I had to close the hatch a bit this morning when we did get some air. The forecast for the next couple days is calm so it’s great to be at Shroud right now. The mangrove cuts allow for lots of kayak time. This morning we just floated around near the boat in our dink and kayak, found a neat little beach next to some small islands where it seems the tropical birds are nesting so they played in pairs or three birds together just over head. It was pretty magical.
11:30 – we had jerk pork for lunch. High tide is at two o’clock so just after lunch is the perfect time to go in the northern mangrove cut to “Camp Driftwood” on the ocean side of the northern tip of the island. The dinghy ride on the invisible water was awesome, from there we broke out onto the beach side where we found a high precipice lookout. It gave us a view of uncountable colors of blue water, with the paradise birds circling at eye level and below.. small islands awash with snow white waves…. sailboats drifting south in the background over ink blue water…. Jono said it best when he told Laurie…… there are places that have nice water, places that have high overlooks, places that have wildlife and times when the weather is perfect… but that doesn’t happen often at the same time. Today it did.
Tonight Laurie is making spaghetti; we are bringing baby carrots and corn to share on Jumanji. It’s been a wonderfully scenic and peaceful day. Mike made us a rum drink and Jono freaked out over having ice in our drinks.. so we fired up the ice maker on SYL, it just dumped the first load in the ice bucket. Life is good.
Jono is very interested in the 36’ Intercontinental brand fiberglass trimaran named “Wings” setting next to us. The couple will probably be selling it in a few months, they bought it to learn to sail a couple months ago but will probably be reverting to land travel again shortly…. It is above Jono’s price range… but you never know what will happen with a motivated seller. I suspect Jono will be sailing to Warderick Wells with them on “Wings” tomorrow. All three of us have reservations at the most beautiful anchorage in the Bahamas. It’s a great opportunity for Jono to ride on the boat, and for them to have a crew that knows how to trim sails and make the boat work right. Jonathon is much wiser than they are regarding all things sailboat….. Imagine that!
7:30 – we just got back from Jumanji, they made a wonderful main course, we brought our Jono flavored up vegetables so we had a scrumptious meal together! We toasted to a great day and enjoyed the sun as it sunk into the clear blue water for the evening. Again tonight we probably have 5 knots of breeze… perfect Exumas weather.
SYL… Rusty