Hatchet Bay

Saturday morning we left Spanish Wells about 9am headed for Hachett Bay, which is about 25 miles away. As usual there wasn’t any wind so once again it was a motoring day. We had to go through Current Cut preferably on an ebb tide which we were off by about 45 minutes but it worked out well with there being about a 4 kt current. As we passed through the cut Richard saw a large Sting Ray leap out of the water in front of us. We arrived at about 3pm and were lucky to be able to grab the last free mooring ball to tie onto! After putting the dinghy in we headed in to check out the town and find a Church to attend in the morning. It is a very small town, with a few stores and a couple of Churches, everyone that we met was very friendly. Paul and Phyllis from Caper had arrived while we were in town,

Sunday morning we attended the local Baptist Church, the children were doing their Christmas Program, which we really enjoyed. The next few days were relaxing checking out the town and the local beach. Richard also had lots of time to work on various systems such as a new auto helm, wheel pilot that is not on crack like the last one! Generator was cutting out so found a couple bad connections and the outboard needed some adjustments as it was stalling. The cruisers joined forces and did a cleanup morning around the town; we also did happy hour on the dock. The men headed out one afternoon on a lobster hunt – we had ham that night for supper…. Christmas Eve we got together with Kathy and Curt on Five and Dime and Holly and Rob from Hampshire Rose we had a great evening.

    Christmas morning we awoke to another beautiful day, fortunately the front that we were expecting bypassed us. Although it is very hard to be away from our family we did really enjoy talking to them at Christmas.  We had planned a cruiser potluck at 2pm, which turned out to be a big hit, everyone attended, and there was a great variety of food. Christmas night we attended Junkaroo, which is the Bahamian version of Mardi gras, it was a lot of fun and the costumes were fantastic, it started at 7pm and went well into the night (we were back in the boat and tucked in by 11pm!) Richard tried the Soucie, which is a Sheep’s tongue stew; he wasn’t real impressed with it.

   Boxing day morning all the cruisers headed out for various destinations we are enroute to Governors Harbour, a few miles down the coast. We are picking Kevin up in Rock Sound on the 31^st so working our way there. We are really looking forward to having him here and showing him around!