Green Turtle Cay 5/202015

Green Turtle Cay 5/20/2015

Green Turtle Cay is one of the best-loved cays and a favorite Abaco destination. There is New Plymouth, White Sound and BLack Sound they all provide sheltered moorings and marinas.  Green Turtle Cay, is roughly the halfway point down the Sea of Abaco.  It is a little three-mile island.  The Atlantic Ocean side of green Turle, once a major breeding ground for green turtles, presents a gorgeous stretch of coastline, fringed with reefs and coral heads, and is well know for its giving and beach combing.  On the West side are two sounds White Sound to the north offers two resorts and great anchorages.  Black Sound to the south, has the Leeward Yacht Club, two marinas and a small mooring field, is close to New Plymouth, the main settlement on the southwest tip of the island.  

We have arrived at Green Turtle Cay about 1:15 p.m. nice calm anchorage wish there was a little more breeze coming through hopefully by the end of the day it will pick up a little bit.  We will go to shore and explore some.  Hopefully find a grocery store here, I am running out of meat and main dishes.  We ate part of our mackerel it was delicious.  We have enough left for another meal.  I had it marinating in herb garlic MMMMMM.

We went into Green Turtle Cay town, where we ate at Harveys, we had grilled Mahi Mahi wrap it was really good with spinach tortilla.  I found a grocery store called Lowes where I bought some chicken, pork chops, and ground beef for spaghetti. 

Here is a quaint little restaurant  called Emily's

Cool Change!

Crab Cay 518/2015

It is 3:15 p.m. we have safely arrived at Crab Cay in the Great Abaco Island. I made steaks tonight for dinner. We have a good signal for internet tonight so I am catching up on my blog.

Ross found a funny sea urchin is is trying to disguise itself with shells and other things on its back

Here is Gigi relaxing up front in the cool ocean breeze.

Here I am  sitting up front

Ross and Gigi checking out the beautiful ocean view.

Some of the ocean and beach landscape

Powell Cay

Powell Cay 5/19/2015

Powell Cay is uninhabited. I found a beautiful conch shell.  Gigi had some fun running on the beach, she was rolling in the sand. 

Ross and Gigi and I are going in the dingy going to the beach.

 Here is a conch shell with the conch still inside it.

  A beautiful sunset tonight.

Great Sale Cay 5/17/2015

We have anchored out in Great Sale Cay it is a nice smooth anchor.  We dinged ashore so Gigi could use the bathroom.  She ran up and down the beach, we put her in the water which which was shallow but she just stood there.  It was funny.  She needs the exercise.  

Another beautiful sunset here in the Bahamas.

The Grand Lucayan Waterway 5/16/2015

As we leave Lucaya, we will be going through The Great Lucayan Waterway

Grand Lucayan Waterway is next to West Grand Bahama District and is located in West Grand Bahama.  Grand Lucayan Waterway has a length of 13.41 kilometers.

Here is a little history on the Grand Lucayan Waterway, it is a little shortcut to the Little Bahama Bank.  The Waterway was the largest engineering feat ever attempted in the Bahamas.  This 1960 dream of opening the heartland of Grand Bahama to development, as well as providing a direct route between Florida and the Abacos, cost $26 million.  There is a hotel that a developer built but it was either poor timing or marketing but the development failed to achieve takeoff speed.  It is a canal system with some of the homes are abandoned and some have revived.  It has many narrow side basins, turning areas and secondary, branching canals.  

However, if you are caught in weather, the area remains a wonderful harborage when caught in an unexpected blow.

We are now in Mangrove Cay for our overnight a little island to protect us.  There is a little sandy beach we might explore tomorrow in the dingy. 

Ross and I played backgammon which I haven't played in a long time, it was fun we both won a game.  

Here is Skye our friends from Bimini, we are following them through the Canal.

Someone is fishing off the little inlet here you can see their van.

Apparently they were trying to make the island a resort, here is a rundown hotel they never finished.

 Here is a home that is actually occupied. which alot of them are deserted.

Leaving The Grand Lucayan Waterway, we made it through without any problems. Here is Skye again.