Allen Cay to Highborn Cay.

With some strong weather from the North east coming, and the place Falco was anchored not being protected from that direction, we decided to go to the marina at Highborn Cay for a couple of days. We have spent a few more days at the Highborn Cay Club,  It is kind of a sissy and expensive way to wait out weather, but it is very nice.  The girls are getting caught up on school, it is easy to get begins We went to the beach on the east side of the island, which is the prettiest beach I have ever seen, there were no footprints, and the sand felt like walking on a terry cloth towel.  The are Stromatolites all along the beach, which are the worlds oldest know microfossils, dating back 3.5 billion years.  They were thought to be extinct until they were found here. 

We spend a day taking the dinghy’s to the reef, and doing some snorkeling, the girls did the “fall off the boat” move like divers do. 

We did a “Bahamian Barbeque” from cool runner, Chicken and ribs, Mahi Mahi, rice, potato salad, and rum cake.  Quite a treat.  The lobster man came by and we bought 4 big ones, for an excellent dinner.  To catch lobster you need to go on the east side of the island and get under the reefs, spear them, and get out of the water as the sharks approach.  I think I will continue to buy them for a while. 

I spent a day diving for Conch and fishing, and I took two that were legal, although I cannot imagine who would have caught me had I violated the law.   Pierre and I did our best to clean them.  He had seen someone do it in Nassau, so he was the expert.  We pounded a hole in the third ring, and detached them.  The locals use something akin to a tiny hatchet; we used a sledge hammer, and were not as successful.  Once you get them out, it is equally difficult cleaning them.  They are coved in slime (think Ghost Busters) and do not look like any creature I have ever seen.  We will try them for dinner tonight.