The weather looks amazing next week, as the summer progresses high pressure areas dominate and winds are light and sweet. Certainly as our guests arrive our outside passage from GT to the rest of the Exumas will be pleasant. It’s only 15 to 20 miles of ocean exposure before we get in the main body of the wonderful Exuma chain and it looks like a weather window to move North is at our leisure.
Amazingly, when we used to charter boats for 2 weeks, I always looked at weather, but we could always just get on the boat and head from Miami across the gulf stream to the Bahamas without worrying about finding a weather window…. we were lucky. Since we bought and cruise often we know more about waiting for weather than we ever had to worry about when we only had 2 weeks a year… That’s dumb luck. It seems our first group of friends have that luck with them as well.
Today I was snorkeling around the boat and found some great shells right here inside GT harbor. They are very fragile fans that have wonderful iridescent pink coloring. I looked them up online and the shell hunters covet them because they never find a whole one…. They are so fragile. I think I have 7 or 8 complete ones so I’m all happy. It seems no matter where you are in the Bahamas snorkeling reveals unexpected treasures. I never figured this anchorage for rare fan shells… But they are here! GT harbor is a pretty amazing place. It’s 10 miles of harbor (actually a sound) with more to look at than you have time to see… Right here in the harbor.
Reefs, starfish, sand dollars, now unique shells…. It seems the new things to find here in GT will never end. We found a great Chinese place in town, our eating habits when we come now are totally different than previous years.
Linda brought it to my attention, but the water here is not as clear as it is up the Exuma chain… Certainly not as good as the out islands. Don’t get me wrong… It’s probably 40 or 50 foot visibility…. Nice by any standards… but outside the harbor it’s generally 90’+. On a hazy day you can see further underwater than over it.
Mmmmmm Linda’s black beans and cornbread are pretty good this evening. We moved back to sand dollar beach today, the wind picked up a little so we went for better protection. Waves are probably 6″ when it gets rough… Lol. Like I said…. Our guests will like their first outside voyage better than most Due to the perfect weather. Tomorrow I may get up at 6:30 and listen to the real forecast rather than looking at weather online but I’m pretty confident about next week. Talking about weather more than a week away is pretty much useless, about one week is all the forecasters will own up to.
Linda and I are looking forward to having guests. We wanted time to roam to our hearts content before coming to GT and we have done that. Linda just reminded me what yesterday was….. we knew it was coming up but we both forgot our 13th anniversary! It was yesterday! That’s what happens when Mondays are just like Sundays that are just like Wednesdays…… Time slipped by us. Wow, if we were in the states we would have been tuned into every moment of time… Planned the day for weeks and went out and spent a weeks pay on dinner! Happy anniversary darling. Thank you for following me around the Bahamas this year. I don’t know if this….. Or the rat race is better…. Yes I do actually but both admittedly have their advantages.
TV (programming) is a powerful thing. Had we been in tune with the world we would have certainly bought the things the TV tells us we need to buy and spent money as the “programmers” tell us to for this momentous occasion, it’s important… But more to us……. than the retailers that live off making us believe we need “stuff” all the time. There is something to be said about being 400 miles from the closest WalMart or jewelry store. Linda seems pretty happy with stuff I found on the beach and fashioned by my own hands just for her. She’s pretty happy with her sea glass pendants…..” Life is good”
The sun is going down.. We are here to see it rather than watching who killed who on the news, listening to John Bainer argue irrelevant point and Obama doing nothing for us but harshly focus on somehow making his political party gain some advantage over the other that means absolutely nothing to you and I. Government gridlock by design…. Politics at their best…. Serving only those who go to Washington for the “lawyer win” of making it big in the system. Yeah I’m on my soapbox……. Why is it that a common man can make as much as the president or members of congress….. Yet politicians retire with millions more than they went into office with. Smells fishy to me. I recently read the Hunger Game series……. the fictional story apparently reinforced my disdain for our “leaders” I guess you could say.
I still don’t understand how the government can take something from you (taxes) remove what it costs to pay themselves, then give you back more than they took from you in the first place……. Hmmmm. Think about that. That’s bound to be a lawyer trick huh? How does that make things better. Yes we need an infrastructure, roads, police, etc. but we don’t need fat cat lawyers taking our money for doing nothing but promoting themselves all the while wanting us to believe “politics” has not degenerated into an obscene distortion of the American Dream….. OK I’m done now, sorry for the rant… Sort of.
The sun has set…. Conch horns have blown across the harbor, time to go down and read in bed. Like I said, life is good.
Sea Yawl Later !! Rusty