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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  :)
Beach Vendors

Love the different colors

Eric & Debbie

Local beer

The point off the entrance of Nassau Harbour

Conch shells

The four reasons the place was so crowded

Eric's Fish & Conch

Debbie & I, each had Conch



Our private bus that only carried
 the 3 of us around all day... 
Our driver, Frank, was wonderful...

Sunday, December 11, 2011

This morning's shore leave...

Spike & Otis love the beach...
Tim really does love Spike...

Making sure the dinghy doesn't escape...

Getting a shore break...





Saturday, December 10, 2011

Misc pictures

Gotta love sunsets...



Spike, the old sea dog...

Spike was very uptight, as you can see...

Two great boat dogs....

Bound for Glory under the rainbow....
Hope they found that 'pot of gold'

Bill Baggs State Park
No Name Harbor

Shopping in Miami

Even Tim shopped in Miami :)

Eric, Debbie, Lisa & Tim in Miami

Biggest Ficus tree I have ever seen...

Otis is still waiting for warmer weather....

Miami

Eric & Debbie

Me & my hubby

Lighthouse @ Bill Baggs State Park, Key Biscayne

Another beautiful sunset...

And another....

Into the Mystic, we go....

Providence Island, Bahamas

We set sail early this morning to head to West Bay on Providence Island. We met back up with Eric & Debbie. Once again, we must eat lobster for dinner.... Had to share with Eric & Debbie...
We will probably be here for a couple of days. May take a cab into Nassau one day, since my camera is trying to die on me. I cannot be without a camera on this trip... Plus, would be fun just to see Nassau for a short period of time and then get back out here where it is nice & quiet...
Pulling into West Bay

Still pulling into West bay

West Bay... Look at that water!

West Bay


West Bay close to where we anchored


I just can't get enough of that water...

Finally, in the Bahamas

We left Miami, Florida on 12/6...
The trip across the Gulf Stream was an awesome sail. Once across, we continued across the Great Bahama Bank and the Tongue of the Ocean. We docked at Chub Cay to clear immigrations and to receive our cruising permit for the Bahamas along with our pole spear and fishing permits. After filling up with diesel and water, we went around to the bay and anchored off of Chub Cay.
Quarantine Flag

Spike on deck

My Captain, getting me safely into port...

He really hasn't thrown me off, yet...

You can't really see them in the picture, but these were 
Starfish in about 20 feet of water

Sunsets are beautiful

Chub Cay Marina

Chub Cay Marina

Dinner

Chub Cay, from where we were anchored


Laundry mat. So good to have clean clothes...