Adventures of CaribbeanSouls

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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

Cave Cay Cut

Cave Cay

Tim walking to the beach...

Shells that I picked up and then left

for the next person to see...

Monday, December 12, 2011

A day in Nassau...

Today Eric, Debbie & myself had a bus take us from Clifton Heritage Park into Nassau. It was about a 30 minute drive.
First he took us to the Atlantis Resort and dropped up off for an hour or so. There were way too many people for me, but I can say I saw it.
Then Frank, our driver, took us to a couple of marine hardware stores and then he dropped us off in town. We walked around with the other '500 thousand' people. You see, there were 4 cruise ships in the harbor today. But we, ended up down at a beach area where mainly the locals hang out. Had an awesome conch lunch at a restaurant where we were the only 3 gringos in the place... We loved it... When Frank picked us back up he couldn't believe we had walked out of the tourist zone and gone so far down the beach. He doesn't have a clue as to how much we like to walk.
Once back to Clifton Heritage Park, our dinghy & Tim were waiting on the beach for us... Tim stayed behind because where we are anchored there is no real place to leave the dinghy except up on the beach. We didn't feel good about doing that because if our dinghy disappears we have no transportation from CaribbeanSouls to land...
Now back on the boat for a quiet evening... Although, I may have to whoop up on Tim in a couple of games of Farkle before bedtime :)