Making Our Way South

We've been working our way south through the Exumas and we are currently anchored off the South end of Acklins Island.  We have one more fairly big island (Mayaguana) and then we will be crossing over to Turks in Caicos.  The weather has been so different from the last time we came through the Bahamas, which was summer both times.  The wind has been crazy and it's a lot colder.  Certainly not as cold as Colorado though, even though they are having a winter heat wave there.  We may have to hang out here for a couple days and wait for a good weather window.  It was pretty rough today with swells and going straight into the wind.  

It's nice that the Bahamians went through and put cell towers on just about every island so we can get service most of the time. It's not very fast and we usually have to wait for things to load but we are on island time.   Last time through we had to buy a Bahamian phone that was very sketchy.  

This was a ray that was off the beach at the chat n chill beach bar on Stocking Island

Kalik is the local beer that made in the Bahamas and this guava one was wonderful. 

Bird Rock Lighthouse off Crooked Island

This is the beach where we are anchored tonight off Acklin Island. One lonely house and they have this wonderful beach all to themselves. 

Finally made it to George Town (bahamas)

 Well its been a little while since I blogged. We haven't had real good service lately. I couldn't get any pictures from my phone to my computer. So I didn't blog. That is fixed now.

We've been going through the Exemuas. The water is beautiful and there are sand dollars at the bottom. The last time we were cruising we couldn't find any sand dollars except in a bay in the US Virgin Islands.

We saw a couple of sharks 

 

Then we got stuck above George Town. The water got a little rough. We could have made it down to George Town but it would have been a little bumpy.

 

 

The weather is finally nice. 75 during the day and 65 at night. It make me want to go swimming.

That is a change from what we have had the whole way down here. The water is 78 or 79 so it is not bad getting in. We also feed some pigs on the way down

 

 

 Here is our boat in the blue water

 

 

 

 

Freezing in Nassau

We made it to Nassau on January 28th and we have been hiding out at the Bay Street Marina for the past few days waiting out this cold front that has been covering the Bahamas.  Talking to the bartender last night, it hasn't been this cold since he was 15 and he is now 35.  The weather app said it was 53 but feels like 37 in the middle of the day and it did feel like 37.  We had to break out the space heater again.  It was mainly the wind is why we decided to stay so long in the marina.  We have had winds between 20-25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph for 3 days.  Hopefully the wind will calm down tomorrow so we can head over to the Exumas.   

We rented a car and drove around the island and ran a few errands.  They drive on the right side of the road and the steering is on the the right.  Wes didn't have any trouble with this, just with the turn signal being on the right side of the steering wheel.  He kept hitting the wipers instead.  Needless to say, we had a very clean windshield.   The car was a pink nissan marsh (never heard of it) and it was pretty beat up but it was only $50 a day.

We also walked around town where the cruise ships come in.  It was pretty quiet when we went because there was only 1 cruise ship in port when there is normally around 6.  A lot of the cruise ships changed their itineraries to skip Nassau because of the winds and rough waters.  We stopped by Senior Frogs to have a drink (and a shot in the congo line) and then margaritaville.  They have some really cute little shops there.  

When we first got in with 6 cruise ships in port

The marina is right across the bay from Atlantis

The lovely pink car we rented