Sailing Ohana

The inside (west side) route from Little Farmer’s to Rudder Cut Cay is in somewhat shallow water, and Tommy and the boys wanted to fish (which you have to do in deeper water), so they voted to go on the outside even though we knew it would be bumpy. Strong-ish easterly winds with some small…

I have been hearing about a local ice cream shop on Little Farmers Cay, and to be honest that was the main reason I wanted to go there. It is also a less touristy Bahamian community, which we were interested in checking out. We sailed down with our friends and met up for a beautiful…

A quick stopover to do laundry turned into a lovely experience. This is a favorite place for cruisers to do their laundry because the laundry mat has a dinghy dock and you can just pull right up to it. When we arrived they were out of tokens and the person in charge of tokens was…

The famous Bahamian swimming pigs live on Staniel Cay. Tourist boats come by all day to feed them and cruisers like us save our kitchen scraps for them. Spencer bonded with a couple of them and was proud to introduce the big daddy pig to a tourist boat as they pulled up. Staniel has a…

We chose to go south from the Exumas Land and Sea Park, on the “outside” of the islands so that we we would be able to fish from our boat. It also gave Jackson the chance to throw his message in a bottle out to sea. The sail down to O’Brien Cay was uneventful, quick,…

Our next stop after a few restful, off-the-grid days on Shroud Cay was Warderick Wells Cay. The island is the location of the main office of the Exumas Land and Sea Park, and some really lovely scenery. We arrived at low tide and were directed via radio by the woman in the office to pick…

There was no reason that we could see to stay at Highborne once the winds settled down, so we took off with SV Grace to Shroud Cay where there is a really nice anchorage and less emotional baggage for us. 😅 We had to go head-on into some aggressive waves and it was a slog,…

Worried that the entrance to Norman’s Pond was too narrow and shallow, but also that there wouldn’t be enough protection from the winds at our current anchorage, we had some really tough decisions to make about the best option for our next location. It was tricky because the winds were shifting from the South to…

We arrived at an anchorage on the west side of Norman’s Cay today, after a 6 hour sail from Green Cay outside of Nassau. We had great winds for sailing and aside from being a little bumpy, it seemed ideal. True to form, we had a few things break: Our outhaul line snapped just as…

After Nassau we stopped at Green Cay, a tiny little island just moments from Nassau. We anchored there and had a lovely night on the beach. Spencer played in the sand and Jackson took out his brand new spear and got a jack for dinner. Great little spot to decompress. Ceviche