In motion – dan
We left George Town at sunrise on the 15th and enjoyed a beautiful 40 mile sail, broad reaching in 12-17 nmp. Excellent tradewind sailing. G-Town had been fun and the living was definitely easy but it was time to move on. Our plan is to follow the chain of Cays on a northwesterly route through the Exumas, headed eventually to Florida and a rendezvous with my older brother.
We made the transit from Exuma Sound and deep water to Exuma Bank, the leeward side of the island chain and shallow waters. Our first stop was Big Galliot Cay that is misleadingly named given it’s tiny (less that 1/2 mile long and ¼ mile wide). But all things are relevant and we finally understood its prefix “Big” once we saw near by “Little” Galliot Cay.
We spent a couple of easy days amongst the Galliots, big & little, doing little but reading, photography and not practicing the violin for Susan. Sadly her fiddle has gone from bad to worse from age and travel and is now unusable. Hopefully a new one awaits her and is with my brother in Florida courtesy of the power of the web. A short (14nm) light air sail (complete with spinnaker run) brought us to Black Point Settlement on Great Guana Cay, a place that we’ve heard much good about and that we looking forward to exploring…
