Finally, a successful day of hunting as Conrad and I both got a large lobster each along the Exuma Sound side of Guana Cay. I thought it was going to be a banner day as I speared this one on the first coral head I checked, but we spent the next 4 hrs searching over some very promising looking coral and rocks and only found one more. Conrad also shot a good size Yellow Snapper. We both missed a very large Margate that was a little too cautious for us to get close to him.
These big guys really look like space aliens up close. Here is is minus the tail and antennae, getting ready to be nurse shark or stingray food.
The First Mate and head chef (only chef?) prepares our catch for a future dinner. Fifteen minutes in a steamer pot and he's ready for the fridge.
Last night it was spaghetti with tomato arribiata sauce topped with lobster tail. An excellent feast.
Unfortunately, we will now be going a week or more with no fish/lobsters to eat as a strong weather system is moving in with 20-30kt winds for the next 7 days. Looks like no hunting until about the 12th of March.. We are moving to anchor around a point off this beach where there will be good protection from the winds but it will be outside internet range so its back to HF email connectivity. Part of next week we'll be confined to the boat as it will be too rough to dinghy into shore but we should be able to get in from time to time and walk the mile to town, at least for happy hour.
If you look close you will see the Moorish looking castle on the point in the background. Nice digs? It is appropriately called Sand Castle and we look forward to getting a closer look when we anchor in this cove.
