This is being posted a little late. We’re finding that wifi service can be hit or miss here in The Bahamas.
Our friends, Donna and Paul, made it to Nassau NYE to ring in the new year with us. A New Year tradition in the Bahamas is Junkaroo which is a street festival that lasts from 2am -10/11am New Year’s day. We went to sleep after the midnight fireworks but got up in time to catch the last hour or two of the parade. Costumes and music were amazing. It was a great visit and I even got my Christmas cookie fix, thank you Donna!
We motored over to Rose Island, about an hour away and decided to spend the night. Not one of our best moves. It was a little choppy during the day but we managed to get in the water and test a couple toys without any issue. Unfortunately it got fairly rough after dark and we were stuck. Next morning saw us pulling anchor first thing and we beat feet back to Nassau and the marina looking for brunch. Thank goodness for friends with a sense of humor and a high tolerance for motion.
January 4th, we left Nassau and moved 40 miles south to Highborne Cay, a private island, where we are currently anchored. It’s beautiful with clear, turquoise water. Our neighbors are a couple large charter boats and we’re watching all the toys that come with that.
We also have two reef sharks, 3-5 ft in length, who have taken up residence under our boat. I threw some old bread overboard this morning and I’m not sure it actually hit the water before being gobbled up. So I followed it up with a couple old roasted beets and we had a soccer game! They’re actually very pretty and cool but I don’t think I’ll be swimming off the back of the boat.
Update: Next day we went into the marina at Highborne for lunch. It’s a beautiful resort, very high end. We also found out why there are so many sharks. They have discovered that the fishing boats clean and filet all their fish at the end of the dock. Then they come out to the anchored boats to see what is being offered.
Took the dinghy north a couple miles to Allen’s Cay to see the iguanas. They actually run towards you. Since we had no food and had been warned they can bite we kept our distance.
And now we count seven sharks under our boat….😱