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Green Turtle Cay

We arrived at high tide Saturday morning and made our way into the harbor, with almost a foot to spare under the keel.  We took a slip at the Bluff House, which is a very nice marina where you can eat your dockage.  Everything you spend comes off the amount you spend for dockage. 

It was a very nice day and we decided to go snorkel on the north side of the island with the crews of Sheet Music and Messenger (a boat with kids we met in Georgetown).  We ended up conching when we saw some locals getting conch likely for the Bahamian specialty of conch salad.  Between the three crews we got 7, five queen conch.  I picked up two at the same time and wore myself out getting them back to the boat.  They are truly beautiful and will make a great decoration in our new home, wherever that is. 

A conch, the inside

Conch Fritters

We rented a golf cart and went to town, and Michelle did some shelling.  We had dinner with 4 boats with kids, it was a good evening.  I tried to do some conching but there was so much wind that the visibility was only about 10 feet.  No luck.  The kids swam in the pool and we made conch fritters and had an appetizer party on the boat with 18 people aboard. 

Allen’s Pensacola, Mangrove Cay and the Gulf Stream

We sailed to an uninhabited island called Allen’s Pensacola where we hiked across the island with the crews of Falco and Sheet Music.  We stopped by the Hilton on the way.

Falco’s crew did not bring shoes, but they were able to find some on the beach, it was kind of like Wal-Mart. 

The next morning we said goodbye for now to Falco, they are staying in the Bahamas for a while longer.  We will miss them!  We went to Mangrove Cay, just a spot of land on the bank and spent the night.  We left at about 3am to cross the gulfstream.  There was very little wind, and we ended up motoring the whole way.  Something ate my bait, but I did not even notice it.  We arrived back in the states on Friday night in Fort Pierce Fl. 

Last Bahamas Sunset

Raising the Q flag on the way into the US