So – the big decision was that song: “do we stay or do we go now?” and…… we – decided – to – go – nowhere! Well, to be truthful, last night we actually did decide to go to Rock Sound – a 35mile (approx. 7 hr) journey south….but when we got up at 6am there was no wind….almost zero….and forecast changed overnight to be lighter during the day …and not having any anchorage closer that would provide protection from NW winds (a problem when sailing long skinny islands with few harbors). So, with a sigh, we stayed put. Another early morning wakeup alarm for no reason.
Of course by midday the winds were kicking up and far exceeded the forecast…so in the end we would have been fine! Oh well.
We made the best of it. We had a good day of school work, 45min walk to a beach on Atlantic ocean side – wild and untamed and no one there but us. Tina returned early to get more laptop work done for the afternoon. Late afternoon the kids had fun jumping off the trapeze on Bliss and swimming in cold water with a cold wind. It was long sleeves and pants to warm up afterwards. We can’t complain much about 70F…. Most of the US woke up cold too, and even most of South Florida was in the 40’s this morning.
The day finished with a super tasty farewell dinner onboard Bliss, then off to bed early.
No Matter What. We Are Picking Up the Anchor Tomorrow!!!!! Exumas I believe is the destination…..only time will tell where we drop it at the end of the day!
More tomorrow!
PS. Photo captions
– included a few of the streets of Alice Town. Some nice well kept buildings, and some rundown remnants too. The pink building is the administrative town building (police, post office, etc).
– Mike and Henry had a hankering for ice cream – so at 10am they bought a tub of chocolate ice cream with 2 spoons and went to town!! Emma had a freezie and Tina enjoyed the view! Good thing we had the long walk to use up those calories!
– Our 1.5mile walk to the beach took us into nowhere land past the cell tower, the electric plant, and apparently the random dump spots that are then burned.
– Mike took his stunt kite the beach – I think it’s the first time the kids have used it by themselves!
Fun Afloat 