Stray Cat Sailing: No Wind For Us

We picked our way through the coral heads and left Normans Cay about 7:30 am since we knew that we had a longer trip to New Providence and wanted to get there in plenty of daylight. We elected to again go to the western side of the island as we did on the trip down. As forecasted there was almost no wind. I think we averaged around 2 knots so motoring we go. It is interesting how different things are on the return trip. There are boats everywhere. A lot more traffic than when we came down in November. Now it’s not what you would call rush hour traffic on the roads or anything but it is different. We may have seen on boat on a leg of our journey down in November but are likely to see 20 now. Our little anchorage in West Bay that we had all to ourselves in November had more than 10 boats last night. The trip was pretty uneventful. We did see dolphins a couple of times but they didn't hang around long enough for me to get but a couple of pictures of them. Freddie kept ready to unfurl the jib and get some help for the motors but finally just gave up. I worked on my basket weaving; I will post a pic when it starts to look like a basket. I cleaned a lot of the yuck off of the conch shell that I picked up at Normans. I also read some of my book that my Aunt Jo gave me for Christmas. I am about 2/3 of the way through with it. It is the story of James Baldwin and his sail around the world alone on his sail boat Atom. Thanks Aunt Jo. We did get settled in time to take the dingy and explore the Park that is on the western tip of this bay. We talked to a group doing an afternoon scuba dive with an instructor that is also professional a kick boxer. Their Bahamian taxi driver asked us if we knew what beach this was and we said “no”. She then told us that this is Jaws beach, where they filmed Jaws. Glad I found that out after Freddie had dove the anchor! We have enjoyed the best internet that we have had since we left the states here. Freddie finally got the Bullet working and we have taken advantage of it checking weather, anchorages and updating the blog with pictures that don’t take 30 minutes each. Heading to Chub this morning and hang out through the cold front.