Last night was a sleepless night. We thought we had chosen a good place, well protected from the wind, but it turns out we had a raging current and the boat was rolling side to side all night. Neither of us could sleep very well, so today we pulled up the anchor and moved a few hundred feet to get out of the current. We also met our neighbors in the Manta 38 "Beach Magic". They are a family of four from Montreal and they are cruising the Bahamas for a few months also. Their boat is the first Manta that was ever built, hull #1 (for comparison, we are #17). They home school their two children with lessons in the morning and snorkeling, etc. in the afternoon. They also have a big yellow lab called Saga. It is amazing that they fit two kids and a dog in a boat slightly smaller than ours. We've got one full room crammed with supplies and spares and can't imagine finding space to store stuff and provisions for two more crewmembers for four months!
We rowed the dinghy ashore today to White Cay. Actually I rowed the dinghy, it was my first time rowing. Kevin installed oar locks on the dinghy back in December. Prior to that, I was a complete prisoner on the boat because of my inability to start our massive 30hp outboard. I am a wuss and can't even get it to turn over. Now that we have oar locks, I'm FREE! Our anchorage is surrounded by several "deserted" islands, and White Cay is one of the smaller ones. It has a beach and several tidepool-like coves. It was fun to explore ashore. Hopefully tomorrow, we'll go hiking around Hoffman Cay which is a larger island.
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