Sunday, April 11, 2010

Gordon's Anchorage, Long Island, Bahamas

We arrived in Mayaguana yesterday afternoon planning to clear in to the Bahamas and continue onward. But we hit a snag as we walked up to the customs and immigration building - it was closed. Undeterred, we walked into town to see if somebody could find the customs official for us. A friendly guy named Reggie made a few calls and told us to come back in an hour and a half. We wandered around a bit and eventually a car drove up to us and asked if we were looking for him (the customs official). So even though it was a Saturday afternoon we managed to get cleared in and were on our way again by 5pm.

The second leg of the passage brought us here to Long Island. The weather forecast is showing 25-30 knot winds sustained for the rest of the week and we didn't want to get stuck in Mayaguana. We originally planned to stop here on Long Island for 5-6 hours so that our departure time would have us arriving at the edge of the Exuma Bank at daybreak. But once we got anchored our exhaustion won out and we have decided to stay here at least until we get a new weather report Monday morning.

Location=Gordons Anchorage, Long Island, Bahamas
Lat=22 51.517
Lon=74 52.310

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