We’re still at Green Turtle Cay, preparing the boat for crossing back to the United States. Tuesday we washed the boat and changed the fuel filter and cleaned the raw water filter.
Tuesday the waves were still rolling in from the Atlantic and we walked over to the beach again to observe. The crews of Tembo (Vancouver Island, Canada) and Stella Maris (Oriental, NC) joined us. The five kids played well together on the beach. After the outing we all took dinghies over to the Bluff House to use the pool, since the Green Turtle Club pool was closed for repairs. Although the pool is saltwater, there are bathrooms with showers so it was easy to get rinsed off. Ended up staying for dinner and celebrating the pending sale of Tembo as they bring their cruise to a close.
There is a low out north of us swirling around as a semi-tropical depression. It is a little early for hurricane season, but anything can happen. We will hang out here until Tropical Storm Andrea dissipates.
Wednesday the crew from Iceni came in and we all went over the hill again to watch the surf. Hannah and Fraser spent the night on Intuition, with popcorn and a movie while we were connected to shore power. We filled up the fuel tank and the 30 gallons of jerry jugs on deck so we should have enough to motor back to the states in case the wind doesn’t cooperate. Beth has been whipping the ends of the lines for each of the jerry jugs. She cut the continuous line that went through all the jugs on one side of the boat into individual lines for each jug. This will make it safer to remove one jug at a time, but has made for lots of loose ends to whip.
As the sun dropped below the hills on Green Turtle, we brought out the conch horns. The three of us gave it a go and all four people on Jule next door took turns with their conch. Learned that Jule used to be Gypsy Common, an Island Packet 38 we met last year in Lake Worth. We were all put to shame by a long winded blow from Steven on Balou that broke into a melody. He had brought out a trumpet and he knew how to use it!
Today we made pancakes for breakfast with the kids. After cleaning up we moved all of 0.2 miles to anchor in White Sound within sight of the marina docks. The wind is out of the South so there aren’t many good anchorages in the area, but this is well protected. This also put us directly downwind of the Bluff House Marina, which had the Gully Roosters Band playing until midnight last night. The night before they were at the same marina we were staying in, but hooked up to shore power, we had the air conditioning on and the windows closed, so we hardly heard them. Not the case last night!
Here’s a photo of the “other” Intuition and a boat we met from Wrightsville Beach, NC at the Bluff House Yacht Club in Green Turtle Cay.