We finally left George Town on Friday morning, and traveled north toward Hawksbill Cay. We had a long cruise, almost 10 hours, but it was lovely weather, and we had a very calm and uneventful passage. On the way, we spoke with many of our Selene friends who were moving around the Exumas, including Wayne and Sharon on My Sharona, John and Kathy on Mystic Moon, and Uncle Luc on Innu. We said good-bye as we are all slowly moving North to our respective destinations either in the North of the Bahamas or Florida.
We also had a little visitor on this run, a lovely little bird who decided that our boat looked enough like an island to take a rest on his migration route. He stayed with us for almost an hour! We also saw four dolphins! They came right up to the boat and swam in our bow wave for several minutes!
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| Our little stowaway! |
After a nice swim on the beach at Hawksbill, our night started out very quiet, but the anchorage got very uncomfortable after midnight as the wind and the tide were in opposing directions. We rolled around a lot, and woke up at about 5:30 am and decided to hit the road!
We arrived in Nassau at about noon after another nice cruise. We entered Nassau Harbor, and Chris docked the boat with amazing grace and precision! Even the dock master was impressed!!
We had dinner Saturday night at Café Matisse, which is with no exaggeration, the best restaurant in Nassau! We had a lovely table in the courtyard, and a fabulous meal. The scene at this restaurant did not disappoint, as the place was hopping with the “beautiful people”. We’ll come back again!!
We spent a couple of days in Nassau, cleaning the boat (which it sorely needed), charging up batteries (which it sorely needed) and some walking around to take in the sights and shopping in Nassau…a very welcome and good interlude.
We went to find some of our old haunts from the last few times we were in Nassau. We had a drink in the beautiful British Colonial Hotel. We found the Dunkin Donuts that Alex used to have breakfast every morning when we were here 24 years ago! Alas, though, the wonderful British pub, The Green Shutters has been converted to an Indian restaurant, the Taj Mahal!
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| Alex's Dunkin Donuts! |
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| The sign is still there... |
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| But a British Pub no longer...!! |
Today, we are planning to head out to Spanish Wells. We hope to get a mooring in Bandit’s mooring field, before heading out to the Abaco tomorrow.
Hey Guys hope all is well Allie Cat and I were just reviewing your blog (again) and she recognized the Dunkies from our trip there last summer and got a kick out of it. She also liked the bird on the boat.
ReplyDeleteThe following is from her.... HELLOOOO! :)
~ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!