Berry Berry Good Day

We just got to the Berry islands. The Berries are a group of about 30 islands that are part of the Bahamas. We just got here last night and stayed out of the harbor because we got here so late and I didn't want to try to dock at night.

It was a long trip over here. 75 knots. Which is at the limit of a one day sail for this boat. We lost our wind about 3 hours into the sail and had to motor the whole way over. We are looking forward to checking out the Berry islands. We will probably stay a week or two.

As for what we did before we got here. We left South Bimini on Tuesday. We went to Gun Key. They have a light house on Gun Key and we climbed to the top and took some pictures. At the north end of Gun Key is Honeymoon Harbor. On the weekend they say it gets packed. But since we were there Tuesday and Wednesday there were only about 10 boats each day. 

There were a whole lot of rays in the water around Honeymoon Harbor and they like to be fed.  People feed them squid. So you have about 30 sting rays crawling over your feet or legs looking for food. They sometimes suck on your feet to see if they can get something to eat. Then we had two nurse sharks swim by. These sharks were small, one was 3 feet and the other 4. But they swam right a long with the sting rays about 5 feet from where we were standing.

I threw out the fishing line on the way over here and caught my first barracuda. He was about 2 and 1/2 feet long and his teeth were well developed. In fact I had to figure out how to get the hook out of that mouth. After he settled down a bit I was able to grab him by the back of the head and use the pliers to pull the hook out. Then I put him back in the water. We forgot to take a picture so I will have to record he next one.