Staniel Cay is our new favorite place, this is paradise!! We arrived here Wednesday from Exuma Land and Sea Park. Our sail from the Park to Staniel Cay took us about 3 1/2 hrs. It was the perfect sailing day. The wind was blowing from the ESE about 15-20 knots, with 3 to 4 foot waves. We are anchored right in town, in front of the Staniel Cay Yacht Club.
Stephanie our friend from Portland is still here with us. Friday morning she will fly out on a small plane to Nassau, then to Portland. I think she will have a hard time getting used to temperatures in the 20's and 30's back in PDX!
We've done some exploring on the island, snorkeling, and we snorkeled into the famous "Thunderball Grotto" today. It is a cave you swim underwater to get into, then when inside it is like a pool with a roof. It was in the James Bond movie from the 60's "Thunderball" and "Splash" Pretty cool!!! Lots and lots of fish.
So in this town there are 3 grocery stores. One is pink, and one is blue and the other is called Isles General Store. Those first two call themselves supermarkets, and they are about a one room house with a few items in them for sale. A can of pineapple juice is $4.00!!!! We just looked. Tomatoes are $4.50 each.
The other store is called Isles General Store. It is fairly reasonable, and has more stuff. Today the mail boat arrived from Nassau, and restocked the island's stores. We got eggs, lots of vegetables and milk at Isles Store today. $4.75 for a quart of milk! But there is nothing else to spend our money on here, but we don't have a choice if we want to eat, and I like eating.
We were just finishing breakfast this morning on the boat, when we saw lots of dingys heading our direction, but it didn't register they were all heading to the store! We got a call on VHF Radio, that the Isles General had fresh produce from our friends. So we got into the dingy and headed out to the store just in time to get some fresh stuff.
Staniel Cay, has a bar called "Staniel Cay Yacht Club. It is probably the best bar in the Bahamas. They play Jimmy Buffett music most of the time, and really cater to the sailors in town. The food is pretty good and fairly reasonable considering the price of food here. They have free wireless internet, and in fact as I write this, we are in the bar at the late hour of 10:00 PM. That's late for us. Out front, they clean fish for the restaurant in the evening and they throw the guts in the water. It brings in sharks and rays, big ones that are fun to watch. Sort of reminds us of whats living in the waters we are swimming in.
We will miss Stepanie when she goes home on Friday. I will miss her doing my dishes, since Chennie does all the cooking and my job is dishes! On Friday we will most likely anchor behind a big island called Big Major, about a mile from here. The wind is supposed to blow hard on Friday about noon, so we want to be some place more secure than where we are with some shelter from the East winds. It's supposed to blow about 35 knots or so for a day or two. This is the world reminding us it's still winter up north. We have to be careful about where we weather these storms.
There is a beach here inhabited by pigs. Big pigs!! They are sort of agressive if you don't feed them. We didn't feed them but they swim out to your dingy for food. If you toss them a can of beer they crush it in their teeth and suck out the beer. We decided to swim elsewhere.
Today I went hunting for lobster with Bill from a boat called Highlander. We went out into Exuma Sound into huge waves in our little rubber boat. The movie "Castaway" came to mind when I went through the cut into the sound. The scene when Tom Hanks was trying to escape the island. Once out there, we decided the sea was too rough, so we found another spot. When we jumped into the water the first guy we ran into was a 3' Barracuda. We scared him off, but couldn't get any lobsters out of their hiding spots.....tommorrow is another day. The great white hunter will eventually get one!
Enjoy the pictures. Send us emails we love to get them from our friends and family!!!
Chennie and Preston
Stephanie our friend from Portland is still here with us. Friday morning she will fly out on a small plane to Nassau, then to Portland. I think she will have a hard time getting used to temperatures in the 20's and 30's back in PDX!
We've done some exploring on the island, snorkeling, and we snorkeled into the famous "Thunderball Grotto" today. It is a cave you swim underwater to get into, then when inside it is like a pool with a roof. It was in the James Bond movie from the 60's "Thunderball" and "Splash" Pretty cool!!! Lots and lots of fish.
So in this town there are 3 grocery stores. One is pink, and one is blue and the other is called Isles General Store. Those first two call themselves supermarkets, and they are about a one room house with a few items in them for sale. A can of pineapple juice is $4.00!!!! We just looked. Tomatoes are $4.50 each.
The other store is called Isles General Store. It is fairly reasonable, and has more stuff. Today the mail boat arrived from Nassau, and restocked the island's stores. We got eggs, lots of vegetables and milk at Isles Store today. $4.75 for a quart of milk! But there is nothing else to spend our money on here, but we don't have a choice if we want to eat, and I like eating.
We were just finishing breakfast this morning on the boat, when we saw lots of dingys heading our direction, but it didn't register they were all heading to the store! We got a call on VHF Radio, that the Isles General had fresh produce from our friends. So we got into the dingy and headed out to the store just in time to get some fresh stuff.
Staniel Cay, has a bar called "Staniel Cay Yacht Club. It is probably the best bar in the Bahamas. They play Jimmy Buffett music most of the time, and really cater to the sailors in town. The food is pretty good and fairly reasonable considering the price of food here. They have free wireless internet, and in fact as I write this, we are in the bar at the late hour of 10:00 PM. That's late for us. Out front, they clean fish for the restaurant in the evening and they throw the guts in the water. It brings in sharks and rays, big ones that are fun to watch. Sort of reminds us of whats living in the waters we are swimming in.
We will miss Stepanie when she goes home on Friday. I will miss her doing my dishes, since Chennie does all the cooking and my job is dishes! On Friday we will most likely anchor behind a big island called Big Major, about a mile from here. The wind is supposed to blow hard on Friday about noon, so we want to be some place more secure than where we are with some shelter from the East winds. It's supposed to blow about 35 knots or so for a day or two. This is the world reminding us it's still winter up north. We have to be careful about where we weather these storms.
There is a beach here inhabited by pigs. Big pigs!! They are sort of agressive if you don't feed them. We didn't feed them but they swim out to your dingy for food. If you toss them a can of beer they crush it in their teeth and suck out the beer. We decided to swim elsewhere.
Today I went hunting for lobster with Bill from a boat called Highlander. We went out into Exuma Sound into huge waves in our little rubber boat. The movie "Castaway" came to mind when I went through the cut into the sound. The scene when Tom Hanks was trying to escape the island. Once out there, we decided the sea was too rough, so we found another spot. When we jumped into the water the first guy we ran into was a 3' Barracuda. We scared him off, but couldn't get any lobsters out of their hiding spots.....tommorrow is another day. The great white hunter will eventually get one!
Enjoy the pictures. Send us emails we love to get them from our friends and family!!!
Chennie and Preston
1 comment:
Hey! Looks beautiful out there!
love - Ciara and Jake
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