Highborne Cay, Bahamas
Finally, the first fish – just for two, small Amberjack, on the way to Royal Island, and first lobster (2), which I spotted while swimming around Nikan, always with my goggles on, keeping a sharp lookout around me for imagined or maybe real? danger from watching too many adventure movies in the past. Still, it took J-P good half an hour to spear them out of their holes and they made an excellent supper (barbecued) on a New Year’s Day. We couldn’t have had it fresher than that! And just before that we spent hours searching the reef, while all this time they lived their soon too short life just few meters away from us. Next we sailed to Spanish Wells, prosperous island with easy going and friendly locals, almost empty food store after the holidays, with a ship full of provision due sometime soon. We were lucky to meet a friendly local who offered us a lift in her golf cart (which we really didn’t need, one can probably walk around the whole island in an hour!) but with a bucket full of tomatoes from her daughter’s garden and she very generously shared with us, as the ones in the store were half dead. Golf carts and cars create no stop procession on the main street, which we found quite amazing, considering how small the island is. Few days later, after zigzagging for a full day over the sand bank full of coral heads and shallow water on the way to Exuma Cays, we stopped for several days in Allan’s Cay (one of the remaining habitats of iguanas in the Bahamas), just relaxing and fishing every day on surrounding reef with zilch result! Too many boats, it looks here all fished out. There are about six Canadian sailboats here, definitely outnumbering Americans. Only “Voila” we are travelling with is English speaking. Tomorrow we will move to a marina for a day to touch base with civilization (understand Internet!), to update this blog, do some laundry, and to see what provisions we can find. Some fresh fruit would come handy. And! J-P decided to update his culinary skills by baking some bread, unfortunately we couldn’t find any multigrain flour here (oh, why we didn’t shop more on American continent!), only white variety of anything and everything is available here. But more on that next time.
