Sailing often means timing activities to the wind and the tides. Today’s morning low tide exposed a huge sand bar about a mile away so we left the breakfast dishes in the sink and set off to explore before 8am. We found baby conch, tube worms, starfish, caves, and turtles in the mangroves on the way back. The rest of the day was spent celebrating another day of not moving the boat! A highlight for the kids was that our snorkeling trip included a gasoline-powered paddle board ride (aka wakeboarding). It was even calm enough to blow up all the inflatables for the kids (they swam for hours just off the back of the boat with those. Henry volunteered to climb the mast to take photos of the fun from above. As the sun began to set all the other boats left the area and we were left happily alone on the beach to roast hot dogs over our campfire made from driftwood. Not a bad day at all!
We’ll likely have 1 more day here, then it will be time to move on and get ready for a coming change in the weather. There’s some north wind in the forecast later in the week that we can use to sail south to the Exumas (we hope).
Fun Afloat 