New Year's Eve Regatta, Georgetown, Bahamas

We followed 8 boats around the harbor today for a great race...

Christmas in the Caribbean...

What a great Christmas we had. There were about 100 other cruisers with us and we had a potluck lunch on the beach... Our table had: roasted chicken, shrimp pasta salad, fried lobster, lots of wonderful veggies, brownies along with pumpkin & Key lime pie...

The only thing missing was  our Stateside family and friends. Otherwise, it was the perfect way to spend Christmas...

Topped the evening off by watching  A Christmas Story...

Christmas Eve Hike...

We took a nice hike this morning up Monument Hill....

Otis, playing along the way... The sand looks

like snow in this picture...

At the top... CaribbeanSouls is 

one of the boats down there...

Tim & Jimmy...

Tim & Jimmy taking it all in...

The view is beautiful from up here...

Jimmy, Otis & Tim resting after the hike up the hill...

Georgetown!!!!!

Wow, we finally made it to Georgetown....
Arrived yesterday and went to bed early, only to get up today and get busy. Took the boat over to the fuel dock for fuel and water. Tim washed all of the salt off the boat while I ran over to the market for a few items. We spent the afternoon on Volley ball beach visiting with other cruisers. Tim & Eric actually played valley ball. Don't know why they both came back to the table COVERED in sand. Hmmmm, makes you wonder....
It looks like we might be here for several weeks....

A few of our neighbors....

Two very lazy pups...

Staniel Cay & Cave Cay

We spent the last few days at Staniel Cay. It was beautiful and we had a wonderful time.

We fed swimming pigs, walked a couple of beaches and snorkeled Thunder Ball Grotto which was used as a set for several movies. It is a grotto that you have to go under a ledge to get into. Once inside the sun shines down through cracks in the top creating a beautiful cave.

Staniel Cay is so pretty, we may have to go back and spend more time there.

Today we sailed from Staniel Cay to Cave Cay. It was about 4.5 hours. Great sail over, but ended up at the marina due to the high winds and strong currents. Not any great anchoring spots that we could find.

We walked the beach and looked for shells, came back and took a long warm shower, did a couple of loads of laundry, had spaghetti for dinner with Eric & Debbie, and called my Mom & Dad.
We are the only two boats in the marina other than a couple of fishing boats that have been left here. There is a bay in front of the marina with a couple of beautiful beaches surrounding it.

Tomorrow afternoon our plan is to leave and head to Georgetown. Will probably get there Thursday morning. We'll hangout there until after Christmas and then we might actually back track in order to see some of the Islands and Cays that we missed along the way, trying to get to Georgetown for Christmas.

The water has been so clear and so blue, I just can't get enough of looking at it.

We thought about asking them if they wanted to trade...

Staniel Cay

One of our anchorage neighbors...

Pig beach

Swimming pigs

Eric & Debbie at the Gov't dock...

Colors of town...

In search of bread & diet cokes...

Otis, always on lookout...

Thunder Ball Grotto

Eric & Debbie

Nurse sharks swimming around...

Great place for lunch...

Dinghy parking...

Beautiful sunset...

Surf & Turf dinner...

Tim feeding the pigs potato peels...

They made me a little nervous...

Musha Cay

Musha Cay

Cave Cay Cut

Cave Cay

Tim walking to the beach...

Shells that I picked up and then left 

for the next person to see...