Far Bahamas
 More "gaps" in the island chain that don't really exist. We had a long haul ahead of us today, we hoped to make about 55 miles to Black Point. 2/3/2004 10:34:34 AM |
 We went "outside" into the Exuma Sound here at Conch Cay Cut. It's Tuesday now. 2/3/2004 10:52:10 AM |
 More surf in the middle of the ocean. Means there's a big old reef there. 2/3/2004 10:52:20 AM |
 Then about lunchtime we heard the fishing reel winding up... 2/9/2004 12:10:12 PM |
 We'd hooked a Bull Dolphin (also known as Mahi-Mahi) 2/9/2004 12:10:26 PM |
 Kristi fighting with the fish... 2/9/2004 12:10:34 PM |
 Jeff got it with the gaff and pulled it aboard. 2/3/2004 12:28:52 PM |
 It's a keeper! 2/9/2004 12:11:22 PM |
 Putting it out of it's misery....(Kristi bailed at this point :-) 2/9/2004 12:11:28 PM |
 He was stunningly neon green and blue and yellow in the water.....the colors faded almost instantly. 2/3/2004 12:33:06 PM |
 Jeff filleting the fish. 2/3/2004 12:52:58 PM |
 I wanted to see how it was done, tho not badly enough to do it myself. 2/9/2004 12:12:38 PM |
 It was almost 4 feet long.....one heck of a nice fish. 2/3/2004 1:11:12 PM |
 Approaching Farmers Cay Cut.....where the heck did a funnel cloud come from??? 2/3/2004 3:59:42 PM |
 It was scary looking...and it started to rain about then. 2/9/2004 12:13:46 PM |
 Even scarier was the fact that we couldn't see into the water now. 2/3/2004 4:03:54 PM |
 We knew there were some rocks and reefs....I was up on the bow seat as a lookout praying I would recognize something bad before we hit it. 2/3/2004 4:04:00 PM |
 A rainbow......we were out of the woods at this point. We used Explorer charts and they were right on as they had been all along. 2/3/2004 5:00:58 PM |
 Sailing away from the storm 2/3/2004 5:05:34 PM |
 It was an impressive buildup. 2/3/2004 5:07:10 PM |
 Approaching Jacks Cove, where we decided to anchor if we could get in. 2/3/2004 5:13:46 PM |
 Rock walls on either side. 2/3/2004 5:17:50 PM |
 Duelling cameras! :-) 2/3/2004 5:19:12 PM |
 We kayaked in to the beach, wanted to climb the hill, but forgot 2 vital things.....shoes and bug spray! 2/3/2004 5:45:46 PM |
 I took about 40 pics of this sunset. It was just stunning. 2/3/2004 5:46:02 PM |
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 Kristi on the beach. 2/3/2004 5:47:32 PM |
 This was the coolest place we anchored the whole trip. 2/3/2004 5:47:36 PM |
 I'd love to spend a few days here. 2/3/2004 5:48:00 PM |
 Jeff knew when the tide went out we'd ground....we were only in 5 feet at close to high tide. 2/3/2004 5:48:26 PM |
 He was on the boat cooking Mahi-Mahi while we were playing. 2/3/2004 5:49:18 PM |
 This could be a postcard. (If I do say so myself :-) 2/3/2004 5:49:26 PM |
 Yes, I know you're sick of it by now. 2/3/2004 5:50:16 PM |
 I wasn't. 2/3/2004 5:50:22 PM |
 And probably never would be. As soon as the sun set tho, we had to flee back to the boat. We were being eaten alive. 2/7/2004 1:44:06 PM |
 I reluctantly gave up taking pics for a few minutes so Kristi could take one of me. This is one of the nicer pics of me I've ever seen. 2/3/2004 5:52:24 PM |
 Kristi icing down her arm...she bruised it badly when she almost fell out of the kayak at the boat. 2/3/2004 6:44:42 PM |
 This place was deserted and just very primordial. We did end up sitting on the bottom...about a foot of the boat out o the water. It's very cool that you can get away with that. 2/9/2004 12:28:02 PM |
Best Vacation I ever had!