Great Sale Cay

Well this is our final island in the Bahamas before heading to Florida in a few days. The island is uninhabited (Great Sale Cay) but is a main stop for boats to/from the US. The normal anchorage is “North West Harbour” but contrary to what it is called, it is located on the south western side of the island – guess somebody failed compass reading 101….

Anyways the winds are going to come from the south west tonight so there is a big bay to the east (Tom Johnson Sound) that we decided to try as it should be less rolly than North West Harbour. The neat thing is, we have it to ourselves, this is the first time since we have been down here that this has happened – and now we are going back :(

The beach looks nice from the boat but when you go to shore it is anything but pristine! It is littered with junk from the sea that has washed up, it is mostly plastic products with the 1 litre oil bottles being by far the most prevalent! I can’t believe people would still be throwing this stuff out, but with plastic it could have been here for 30 years, so it may not be new. We haven’t seen a lot of garbage on the shores, which makes me think that it normally gets cleaned by somebody.

Tomorrow morning after the wind dies out we will head over to the other anchorage.