We spent Christmas and New Years in Marathon and we'll post a few pictures of the last days we enjoyed in Florida before crossing over to the Bahamas when access to the internet improves.
We left New Years day after topping off water and fuel. We sailed to Channel 5 bridge to anchor overnight before our first light departure. What a lovely sunrise we had to send us off.
The crossing was pretty uneventful as they go, the wind was light and mostly on our bow so we motored almost all the way. We did have a few large vessels to call on the VHF radio as they were pretty close and we need to avoid them or them avoid us! The AIS system for ship tracking really did help to call them by name as we got all of them on the radio.
We raised our Quarantine Flag before we arrived in Morgan's Bluff on the north end of Andros Island at around mid-day. It is a very small town and even smaller port. It was very barren but it did have a bar :-) We arranged to meet Customs and Immigration at the bar as there are very few places to sit and do the paperwork. It's very informal here and the officers were extremely friendly and helpful so we all checked in easily. It's only $300 for 5 months vacation here, the best value we've ever had, but you have to bring your own accomodation.
The water in the anchorage was just so beautiful Devin had to jump in, what a trooper the water was still pretty cold in January! Yes that was 12ft of water and crystal clear to the bottom. After a night on the hook in Morgan's Bluff we decided to leave for Nassau. A few jobs need to be done by our buddy boats and we could do with checking out Nassau at least this once.
We will post more later, we hope everyone has a woinderful 2013.
Devin & Liz.
1 comments:
Congrats on your crossing! That's what you want when crossing the Gulf Stream - uneventful and boring. In Nassau, check out the hill-top fort and the Queen's Stairs.
Anne and Chris
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