George Town to Water Cay,Jumentos

Monday March 15th

Ric and Rose arrived Monday evening in George Town... Dwayne picked them up by dinghy over at Exuma Market just at Sunset... Once all settled in on SeaVeyor we had our Sundowners and a wonderful grilled lobster meal... Captain Dwayne had us all up early on Tuesday morning to get ready to pull up anchor and head towards Water Cay, Jumentos... We had to leave early enough to make Hog Cay Cut at high tide.... GodSpeed ,Liberty, and Double Wide left out at daybreak because they travel a little slower.... Once SeaVeyor made it thru the cut, we quickly passed the others ( only because Captain D thought the motors needed to be , uh, revved up ! HA!! Made some good pics of the others as we passed, even though we were going 18knots to their 6 or 7!!!We made it to Water Cay in the Jumentos around 2:30 or so and dropped anchor first.. My Captain loves to leave last and arrive first!!!!!!!!!! Non Linear and Our Freedom also came up from Long Island to meet us...and Liberty and Double Wide kept sailing further South... The water was beautiful and the boys put in the dinghy and proceeded to hunt for bugs and grouper....They were able to come up with enough for supper for all....all boats came over to the SeaVeyor for Sundowners and we met NonLinear and Our Freedom's crews... Wonderful, fun-loving people and we all had a great evening...

The next morning the boys went on a recon mission to check out the Ocean Hole (blue hole) that was just around the reef. All decided to make the SeaVeyor the mother ship and off we went to anchor just at the edge of it.. It was amazing to see it with the difference of water colors, etc... Not sure exactly how deep it was , but it went from 12ft to 104ft pretty quickly... Tom caught the first bait fish, then Ric proceeded to catch about a dozen or more good size bait fish, that were used for the BIGGER ONES (grouper, etc ) lurking in the deeper water... Pat caught a good size grouper, several other big ones were lost and then the BIG one hit!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dwayne had quite the fight with a Bull Shark ..Everyone pulled in lines and it was on.... After a joint effort and good fight by Dwayne, Mr. Shark lost... That was enough for one day , so the SeaVeyor went back to our original anchorage with the other sailboats.... We all got back together again for shark on the grill... wonderful meal...

The next morning we had to part ways, but not before Cowboy Pat brought over some cowboy biscuits and gravy for breakfast . GodSpeed, Our Freedom and Non Linear headed South for Flamingo Cay, Jumentos, while we headed back North to Long Island. We left around 9am and arrived about 3pm in Long Island... Have had a great time here too.. Took the dinghy over to Long Island Breeze Resort and had a great meal there.... Today, we are hanging out here at Long Island Breeze at thier pool and I am using their internet to get the blog site updated... We plan to rent a car again tomorrow and see the Island. We have seen the southern end, but not the northern end... hopefully, we can see the whole island this time and take Ric and Rose to Dean's Blue Hole and Max's Conch bar... Ric and Rose fly out Wednesday am and we will travel back North to George Town to re-provision, etc.. and then head North ourselves....

It continues to be fun, be hardwork, be a learning process and I never take anything or any of this for granted... We are truly blessed to be able to see and do the things we are doing..... More news at 11................. Linda and Dwayne