Making Waves to Black Sound

Another day in Hope Town, this time with a few chores.  They never end.  This time Luke is hanging upside down in the bilge, fixing the bilge pump (important part in the boat - could keep the boat from filling with water and sinking!)

One final picture of the Hope Town lighthouse and its reflection in the water, probably our best picture.  Luke shot this one early Friday morning before we left Hope Town.

 

We took advantage of quiet weather on Friday to go to Green Turtle Cay, into Black Sound, at the settlement of New Plymouth.  To get here, we had to navigate through a cut from the Sea of Abaco into the Atlantic and back again into the Sea of Abaco, known locally as "the Whale" since it goes outside around Whale Cay.  On a calm day, it is not difficult.  In bad weather, the cut is impassible.  Just ask the captain of this Bahamian barge, left to rust on the reefs that it wrecked on.  Even on our quiet day you can see the breaking waves across coral reefs.

 

 

 

And how quiet was it?  Quiet enough for sweet Smoke to find a new cruising place.  She is snugged into the shade of the outboard motor that hangs on the stern railing of Latitudes and beside one of our extra gasoline jugs.

 

 

 

We passed New Plymouth from the water, saiiling in light winds to kill time waiting for high tide to get into Black Sound. This entrance shows 4.7 ft depth at "mean low water" so we had to wait for a couple of feet of tide to get in with our 5.5 ft draft. Pictures later from town.

 

 

Based on the weather forecast this morning for northerly winds for most of next week, we'll be here until Thursday.  Maybe a crossing back to the States on Saturday/Sunday.