After dropping Jackson off at the airport, we spent the rest of the day preparing for departing Nassau, topping off the water, gas, diesel and ice supplies.
We then moved out of Nassau on the 10th but only as far as the Montague Bay anchorage just around the corner from the marina, where we have to wait for a cold front to blow through and the winds settle down.
Morning of the 11th and time to get underway for the Exumas. The wind is now blowing from the north which means it will be a downwind run. Downwind is good for reducing the apparent wind and less waves smacking the bow but, it means rolling back and forth. Sue took many photos trying to catch our maximum rolls which went as far as 30degrees but, this was the largest one she got clearly, a mere 15 degrees. For a couple hours it was quite rolly, but the good news is we were able to sail almost the entire trip.
Eleven hours later and we are back in Big Majors anchorage where we departed from 4 days ago to head to Nassau.
Now we will sit here for a couple days waiting for the winds to die down some, then proceed further south down the island chain.
Sitting at the well protected anchorage, its time for Sue to do some baking. We saw this recipe on the internet for jalapeno and yogurt scones (more like biscuits). They were actually very good and we still have a couple in the freezer.
There's also time for basket weaving. Rivah is very happy to be just sitting at anchorage with a handy lap for a pillow. She seems to suffer more from seasickness as she has gotten older and is definitely spending more time sleeping in general.
The base of a basket under construction. After a 13 year hiatus of not weaving baskets in the Bahamas, Sue's skills took lots of internet video instruction views to get the skills back but, after a couple starts she had down.
While waiting on the winds to allow us to go south, we took the opportunity to head in the dinghy out to Sand Cay and collect some more palm fronds for the baskets.
There were several immature conch along the rocks at Sand Cay, but not old enough for conch fritters. Sue was not upset she didn't have to hammer out the tough conch meat to get it to an edible state. She did find several unoccupied shells that she collected.
Finally on the move south and around Harvey Cay to the south of Big Majors and over to Bitter Guana Cay where the famous iguanas hang out.
