Happy Easter everyone!! I did not see the Easter Bunny today i guess his boat got delayed by the weather! It was a beautiful Sunday and Steve and I decided to check out the beach here and try to find some sand dollars. We saw so many pieces of sand dollars and small shells. Steve was attacked by a crab in the water, gotta watch out for the attack crabs :-)) I had a crab running down the beach in front of me and Steve had a big one in a standoff Claws Up! We attempted to lay out at the beach and wind started to immediately cover us up with a thin blanket of sand, time to move. Steve found a protected cove without the automatic sand blankets from the wind. It was so pleasant with min wind and lots of sun. Steve explored the south beach and i just layed out in the sun. aaahhhh nice. We walked back down the beach took a walkway between the houses and saw what looked like a bird sanctuary in someone’s back yard. Lots of ducks and doves. One bird looked like our wood duck in the states. Well past the birds and back to the docks where we sat and checked internet. One of the corners of the street has an unlocked internet signal. No luck tonight no signal for checking. We sat there for a few minutes it was so peaceful and pretty.  And then we went back to the boat grabbed water jugs ours and David’s and filled them for our trip tomorrow, took our garbage too.  Well we got all prepared for our journey to Abacos tomorrow. Yeah!

We left the marina this AM to go back to our anchorage since wifi was minimal and we didn’t get electricity. We got the laundry finished that was a biggie. I love the anchorage because you do’nt have so many people that can see in the windows of your boat. Today we did not do much of anything, sometimes you just hang around, that is island time lol, I think we will rent a golf cart tomorrow to get groceries and supplies. Hope everyone had a great day we did just doing nothing!

Pink sand beaches!

Only one of these works 🙂

The boat belongs to Lenny Kravitz

Good morning everyone!

Beach Spanish Wells

Can you see the pink sand in my finger shadows?

Spanish Wells

Pink sand beaches!

Steve’s future boat 🙂

Spanish Wells

Another beautiful day in the islands. Steve and I went to explore today again and decided to anchor in the marina for one night to do laundry and get the internet. They charge you for electricity, and internet as well. We had to go to marina to do laundry because the only one on the island for public use belongs to marina and you cant use it unless you are there paying for dockage. The price was not bad for laundry tokens 3 dollars apiece. Compared to 4 and 5. They have one washer and one dryer and you can only get the internet if you are sitting at laundromat door or in marina office. We got all the laundry done it took about 4 hours and then we went to boat to cook. I had one load left so i had to go back to laundry to finish. This town is a small neat town with friendly people. We love the environment here. We will await a good weather window now to travel to Abaco. Steve took out the dinghy and explored the little island and slew beside us today. He found a blue crab, some barracuda and a few fish.  Good day today and great meal this evening with friends and fudge!! 🙂 Have a great day everyone!

** The boat belongs to Lenny Kravitz the beaches are all Spanish Wells. I hope you like the pictures! Lenny sings one of my favorite songs, “I Want to Fly Away” I think lol

Good morning! Sailing to Spanish Wells again today. the weather is beautiful and sunny the water is calm with winds at around 7-10 knots. Steve and I put the spinnaker out today due to decreased winds and we are going downwind. After we figured it out the sail was working wonderful it took the wind and increased our speed to 6-7 knots whoo hoo! It looks pretty too. We flew it as long as we could until winds picked up and we had to go back to headsail and motor. Motor because the wind was still not strong enough to make good time. We took turns steering and had a great time. I had to go out to the bough to fix a piece on the spinnaker and was blown around, glad i was holding on!! There were 2 dolphins hanging with us so i felt good! Dolphins are a good sign I hear. We had to leave the shallow banks and go into the ocean to make it to Spanish Wells for our anchorage. We enjoyed the sail with the winds the beautiful weather and the boat just sailing along. We made it to an anchorage outside the island after dark and anchored out. We are getting good at anchoring, whew! that is a good thing. We fell asleep under the starry sky and peaceful waves lulling us to sleep. Goodnight everyone!