We left Hatchet Bay heading for Current Cut - another nail biter. We followed the advice of our friend, Jess on Cattails, and made it through without any problem at all. It was a little disconcerting to travel so close to the rocks but we had plenty of water and timed it for slack current. Decided to skip Royal Island and headed right to Spanish Wells. We were lucky to get a mooring in the harbor. Spanish Wells is a beautiful little fishing town - immaculate and picturesque, even if they did want $22 a pound for what they call lobsters!! We decided to wait till we get home to Nova Scotia. We took the high speed ferry from Spanish Wells to Harbour Island for the day. It was quite a thrill to go through the reefs at Devil’s Backbone at 30 knots!! Had a wonderful day exploring Harbour Island and treated ourselves to lunch at Sip Sip’s on the beach. It’s the first time we have ever paid $18 for a hamburger but the restaurant was lovely.
Checked the weather at 6:30 on Sunday morning and realized that if we didn’t leave immediately we would be stuck in Spanish Wells for at least another week before we could go up the Northwest Providence Channel to the Abacos. Hard to believe but by 7:45 we had taken Abby to shore; hoisted the dinghy on to the deck; stored all our “stuff”; and hired a pilot to take us through the reefs at the northern end of the island; and were untying our mooring lines!! That’s a record for us. We had a wonderful motor sail from Spanish Wells to Little Harbour; negotiated the cut without incident and anchored off Lynyard Cay for the night. The next morning we went into Little Harbour at high tide; it was close, 6’5” but we made it. There is an iron foundry that we wanted to see in Little Harbour. They had some beautiful things - a coffee table with spotted eagle rays and dolphins for a base really took my fancy but for $10,000 I had to just admire it.
We were judges at the conch blowing contest at Hopetown. That was fun. It’s amazing the different tones each conch has. The longest blow was 26 seconds!!
We are now in Marsh Harbour catching up on chores and visiting friends.
Enjoy the photos!!