Day 161, Year 10: All of It
Date: Friday, March 20, 2015
Weather: Mostly Sunny and Beautiful, Winds S’ly 5-10
Location: Anchored at Cambridge Cay, Exumas
We spent a second day here at beautiful Cambridge Cay. When the volunteer ranger, Burry from Canada, came by to pick up the $30 mooring fee this evening he asked Claire what we had done today. Her reply was, “All of it.” And that is about right.
We started our day by getting everything ready to clean the bottom of the boat, but we then had to abort that mission due to the strong current. Instead, we called Ed and Lynne and all of us went to shore and walked across Cambridge Cay (not very far) to the east coast to see Bell Rock up close and then followed Ed who took us on the ridge walk to the northern tip of Cambridge. The views were spectacular, so it was well worth it. We found Seven Year Apple bushes full of green and orange-red fruit that look like limes. We were told these are edible by humans, but taste just awful. But when they turn black and fall to the ground, they make great iguana food. We saw rays and turtles in the water around Windbird and toward the shore.
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| 150320 Day 161a Bahamas–Cambridge Cay Ridge Walk |
Next we snorkeled at the Sea Aquarium at the northern tip of O’Briens Cay and at the sunken airplane at Pasture Cay. We took a look at Molly’s Chunky Monkey snorkeling site and decided it wasn’t worth the time, but then did a drift dive on the west coast of O’Briens Cay. When we got back to the mooring field, we went to a small islet that Ed and Lynne told us about and did our final snorkel of the afternoon. It was a beautiful day on land and under water.
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| 150320 Day 161 Bahamas–Cambridge Cay 2 |
Tonight we had Happy Hour on Constance and then dinner back here on Windbird. Mark and Ed grilled the chicken and Kevin and Claire did the rest of the dinner. We had a fantastic spinach salad and a chicken, broccoli, and pasta entrée laced with lots of garlic and Parmesan cheese. Kevin loves creating dinners with the ingredients at hand and he is very good at it. And to top things off, Lynne brought her world famous walnut-chocolate chip cookies for dessert. What a great day.
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| 150320 Day 161c Bahamas–Dinner Aboard Windbird |
Tomorrow we move further north in the park. Ed and Lynne will be staying here and we will say our farewells in the morning. We probably won’t see them again here in the Bahamas. They are sailing to the east to Eleuthera, on to the Abacos, and then back across to the Florida-Georgia border where they will keep Constance for the summer. It was wonderful seeing them here and we will look forward to our next meeting, wherever that may be.
