Trip to Georgetown

The Bahamas police have cool uniforms







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Rasta mannnn!







Straw market in Georgetown







Everyone's fav store in Georgetown, top to bottom. It's a hardware store with a bit of everything!





Bandstand at regatta point park




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Georgetown pics

-Saw the pin cushion starfish on the bottom near sandollar beach! The thing must have weighed 5 pounds




Pic from a talk given on volleyball beach all about Bahama history





The benches at volleyball beach double as church on Sundays




Beach on the sound side of stocking island





Path on stocking island

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Georgetown

Well we finally are at the southernmost point of our journey
We arrived on friday afternoon. Dropped the hook at sand dollar beach and put the dink in the water and went to volleyball beach and had some drinks and a order of peas and rice at chat and chill bar there on the beach. Sat we took the dink over to Georgetown and went looking around. Not as much to Georgetown as we thought but still a neat place. Pics below




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This is the entrance to lake Victoria and the dinghy dock behind the grocery store




Anita at the bar at the famous chat and chill beach bar at volleyball beach






Volley ball beach as we approached on our dinghy






Anita posing at the sign at the dinghy dock behind the grocery store



Right in front of chat and chill on the beach is this totem with signs I assume cruisers have put up point to their home towns with the mileage. We found Houston, ft worth, Conway Arkansas.





Above is why they call it volleyball beach!





The entrance to chat and chill





View from peace and plenty hotel looking over the Harbour to volleyball beach! Pretty isn't it?






Discovery from the sand dollar beach




Another view including the beach


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Black Point to Cave cay

We decided that since west wind to 20 knts was predicted for wednesday we would head south to cave cay marina about 12 miles south. The marina is surrounded on all sides by bluffs and had floating docks so it's a good spot to hang. Black pt is not protected at all from the west. We really enjoyed black point, it was cool to see a real Bahamian settlement, the school and the school kids, we bought bread from right from the kitchen of a Bahamian family, really yummy cinnamon reason bread! We ate lunch at lorraines restaurant and wifi cafe, great food and free wifi! Lorraine herself was great and it was her mom who baked the bread in the house behind the Resturant ! Cave cay is a spectacular isolated cay, owned by a Texas oil man and carved out of solid rock, it's a great hurricane hole and it's surrounded by wonderful coal and sandbars! See the pics below





Lorraine herself posing in front of her Resturant, wow what a great fish sandwich she made( red snapper)





-The islanders build their own boats and take their racing very seriously, many of the stores proudly display the trophies members of their families have won!




Police station in Black point!








One of the three Resturants on black point





The friendly grocery store in Black point! Lots of business's use friendly in their names in the Bahamas .





Shot inside of Lorraine's Resturant





300 residents, one school grades 1 thru 9, children have to go to Nassau for the last 3 grades. All the children we precious!






Shot of the Harbour at black point.








Entrance to cave cay marina.







Beach inside Harbour at cave cay





Dock office at cave cay marina





Approaching cave cay marina just past entrance.





Discovery at her first marina since Nassau!





Pretty clear water under our keel at cave cay





This oyster was growing on the top of our rudder! Noticed it when I was clearing fishing line from my prop! Anyone got some good cocktail sauce?





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Exumas adventure

We left Nassau at the beginning of march and sailed to Allen's key, then to shroud key and then to hawksbill key! Next was Wadrick wells the hq for the Exumas land and sea park, the national park of the Bahamas. We then sailed south to Staniel key home of the swimming pigs and thunderball grotto, made famous by the james bond movie. Next came black point key, home to a thriving Bahamian settlement.




-iguanas that infest the beaches at Allen's key




View from the beach at Allen's key, home of the iguanas




Discovery at anchor at Allen's key





View from discovery anchored at Normans key, where the drug lord had his airstrip and compound




Ashore at Normans key airstrip




Anita posing at a beach at shroud key





Friendship rock tower at highest point at hawksbill key





View from the top of hawksbill key hill.


View from our boat anchored in the north mooring field at Wadrick wells





The dink behind the boat at Wadrick wells





Our discovery driftwood memento left at Boo Boo hill at Wadrick wells. This is a cruising right of passage.




Another shot of boo boo hill at Wadrick


Shot of discovery anchored at Wadrick wells




Finally found Internet at the beach at wardrick wells!!! Ha ha




Shark feeding at Staniel key yacht club docks!






Swimming pig at big major beach!







Sting ray at Staniel key






Anita in front of one of the grocery stores at Staniel key. There were two, the red store and the blue store!






Entrance to thunderball grotto at Staniel key!





Sign at thunderball grotto!





Lorraine cafe at black point!