Long Island to Jumentos

Hey to all, it's Feb 16th...We are back in the George Town area now... but let me tell you where we have been and what we have been doing... After our tour of Long Island, we got together with our cruising friends Ron and Chris on Nimue and Mark and Liesel on Cool Breeze II and discussed traveling south to the Jumentos for a few days... Mark and Liesel were heading south anyway to make passage to Jamaica... So we all headed off south.. Weather forecast at the time was favorable... Cool Breeze left out earliest around 4am on the 8th of Feb, with SeaVeyor and Nimue leaving out around 8:30am... Oh, I forgot the nite before,we spent a fun time over on shore at Long Island Breeze Resort for the Superbowl..met some more fun and crazy cruisers and left at halftime to prepare for our trip the next am.... The trip was fun with no problems other than keeping an eye out for coral heads..Arrived in Water Cay around 1:30pm to find Mark,Liesel, and Samson already in their dinghy scouting things out.. Mark was having water withdrawal symptons, he had cut his leg a couple of weeks earlier and had to stay out of water until it healed... Mark dove and found a nice lobster! All gathered at sunset to have sundowners on the cockpit of SeaVeyor (which we now call the Mother Ship!) We made plans to travel a little further south the next morning.. However, after hearing the forecast, plans were changed... Cool Breeze needed to take advantage of the weather window to head further south to make time for their Jamaica passage...We , along with Nimue decided to head back to Long Island to ride out the upcoming fronts... So everyone prepared to leave , but not before getting together one last time... We got together with Nimue and prepared a fun going away package.. it consisted of a case of beer, books, toilet paper(very prized item), a cedar plug for fishing, a fun, homemade card with their pic on it, and of course, items for Samson. They dinked over to Nimue first , and then over to us... Needless to say, it was a teary goodbye... we all had not known each other long, but definitely bonded over the last few weeks.. SeaVeyor and Nimue declared that we were their seafaring parents... and they best keep in touch with us!! We are all trying to stay in contact on the Single Side Band each am around 7:45, along with another fun crew on Lion's Paw...

Made our way back to the GT area, but anchored at the Red Shanks( hidey hole just south of GT, with good protection) to ride out the first front. It was not too bad.. We are now anchored back in front of the Monument... Yesterday was dead calm and today we have huge rollers from the North west... We have been on SV since Saturday and were hoping to dinghy over to town, but not in this choppy mess!! Oh well, gives you time to clean, cook, read, etc etc...

The pics I posted were of Dwayne and the Kids, Nimue under sail, and the Kids saying goodbyes to Nimue....

Not sure what/where our next stop will be... more news at 11.............