Chub Cay

Tuesday December 22,2009 Chub Cay

We left out of Bimini yesterday morning around 8am and made it to Chub Cay right at dusk last nite and found a beautiful little basin to drop anchor in.. It was a long day to say the least.. Seas were not too bad, 3 footers with wind out of the North ..just overcast.. no sunshine...Dwayne has said we can't post any pics of us until we get a tan...Geez... at this rate... who knows.. maybe a tan by February! Ha!

Woke up early.. still overcast and little peaks of sun here and there.. I decided to be brave... jumped in and snorkeled around the SeaVeyor... What fun...Very sandy/grassy bottom.. no rocks or coral here, but did see a few fish and got some good exercise.. did happen to see a very small lion fish... The water is 8'deep, but looks like we are in a foot of water.. so very aqua and clear.... Dwayne managed to catch a Remora fish this afternoon... It's a species that attaches itself to other larger fish/turtles....nice size fish, but not one to eat! We are watching a front in the distance, believe it or not, we want some fresh rainwater to wash off the salt from SeaVeyor...Hopefully it will come around and give us a little shower...

We plan on staying here thru Christmas , having wifi is nice, and we can communicate with family and friends during Christmas day... Hope to take the dinghy out tomorrow and explore some and maybe my Captain will catch me a grouper... Will attach a few pics..

We also had some visitors this morning... Cute little birds that did not seem to be afraid of us, although they decided it was time to leave when Monkey Butt came out in the cockpit!!

P.S. yes, I know I did not hit the right key for spelling "champagne" , so fire me as a journalist!!! Anyway, look forward to toasting all of our friends and family that support our adventure... I have not regretted one minute... Although, so much more to this than I ever expected....Navigation, weather, ship maintenance, and most importantly, becoming one with SeaVeyor and recognizing every sound she makes... good and bad.