One Month In... Bahamas done!

So here I am once again having spent more time in the Bahamas. And although I'm about to move onwards to continue south, it could be very easy to spend a lot more time here. Such a great cruising area with so many choices and options, along with some of the clearest ocean waters out there.

The last month has gone by so quick, as mentioned in my last post I had my mate, Greg, with me up until just a few days ago. He is back home on Aussie soil now, back to the daily grind! Poor bugger. Sharing this experience with my best mate of the last 28 years or so though was awesome and hopefully there'll come a time again. 

Okay so I'm not going to go into detail of our everyday itinerary, that would just take too long. The short of it was that we found many a spot to anchor up and take in the surroundings, some places kinda busy with plenty of other boats about, some where it was simply just us. We had our share of windy days, some of which made for a great sail and sometimes meant standing by for another day or two before moving on. 

Having set off from Fort Lauderdale, and making the day trip over to Bimini to clear into Bahamas we set about spending a few days around the Berry Island group. The first time we got in the water for a little swim and we were greeted by a curious shark who came by to see what was going on. Welcome to Bahamas! 

From there it was down to Nassau for a couple of nights, nothing too special about Nassau but worth the stop to pick up a few items that I needed and a little re-stock of some fresh food stuff. The day we headed off for the northern Exuma's was a stunner, no wind which of course isn't ideal for a sail boat, but having had a number of rougher & quite windy days it was nice. Even managed a little playtime along the way getting Greg to tow me behind the boat using the SUP! Our first night in the Exuma Islands and we got an invite for dinner from our anchored neighbours, they were on their last night of chartering and had a heap of food so we were only too happy to take up the offer and help. Nice people, Canadians of which seemingly must like it down here as plenty of the boats we saw had the maple leaf flying off the back of the boat.

Over the course of a couple weeks we made our way down to the island of Great Exuma, to the town of Georgetown. This was to be the end of the road (so to speak) for Greg, after a couple of days/nights relaxing here it was time for him to head off to the airport and get on his way. 

So that was about 4 days ago now, and I'm still here. However that is all about to change tomorrow morning as I'm all set to continue on my way. It will still be a few days before I'm out of Bahamaian waters. I did debate the idea of heading out into open water and traveling day and night to reach the BVI's, but what's the hurry right. So I'll take it easy over the next 4-5 days to finish off and get to the Turks & Caicos. From there all being well with the weather I'll likely head direct to BVI (British Virgin Islands) bypassing Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Both great places that I've visited before, however with the time passing by so quickly I would like to get further along to keep options open as I'm still undecided when I'll look to transit the Panama Canal and get to Pacific waters.












Remember anyone out there that might want to come for a sail, just give me a bit of a heads up and maybe something can work out. Thanks for reading!