January 15, 2016
The Exumas here we come
January 15, 206
This is a summary of our stops
Nassaua
Normans Cay
Bahamas Land and Sea Park
Staniel Cay
BlackPoint
We have cay hopped all the way to BlackPoint. We sit this morning on the porch of the laundromat using Wifi! The wifi is 3G and they think that is fast. It takes an hour to download a couple of pictures.
BlackPoint has a paved road from one end to the other. There are golf cart and cars and trucks. The prettiest scenery is walking to to the top of the hill and viewing the Atlantic Ocean.
We bought fresher backed coconut bread on Wednesday from the lady next to the laundromat.
The picture is for Mary Gregg. The middle has coconut and maybe brown surgar in it. We could have eaten the whole load at one sitting!
We bought a SIM card in Nassau and jerry slipped it in his phone to use as hotspot. Little did we know that all of his apps were set to download and a lot working in the background. It sucked down 75% of a 30 $ card. So he promptly went back to his Tmobile card.
We are finding that we can text and email with TMobile but only able to download one pic at a time. The Bahamas made agreement with Batelco to use their towers. It has helped with cost of data!
Next stop may be GeorgeTown where all the cruisers stop to anchor. Just google it. You can get most anything at Georgetown. The mail comes daily by air. Most islands only receive mail one time a week by cargo ship with the goods they ordered.
That's why we call the USA the land of "plenty"
Georgetown is the jumping off place for the Carribean or it may be the turn around place for many of the 450+ boats who are anchored there.
Van Sant, author of Gentlemen's Guide to Passages South has named the city of Georgetown "chicken harbor" due to so many boats who stop there and turn around.
The snapshot of Garmin chart shows from Biscayne bay to Just north of Georgetown our trip since leaving east coast of Florida.
More to come.
Picture of Encore on anchor in BlackPoint harbor today!
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