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Good morning!  What is a bananaquit?  They are the resident finch-like bird here at park HQ. A little bit of sugar on your hand and they come and lick out of your palm. We met them first at the park service office and then had one fly down into the cabin. They are cute with…

Greetings from Warderick Wells mooring ball #13. This is HQ for the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park and we arrived shortly after lunch today. Yesterday was another relaxing day at Shroud, where Noah went off and played with kids from Contented Turtle and See U Manana. They all crowded into a dinghy and went…

Greetings from Shroud Cay The wind is still blowing 20 with gusts to 30, but it is mostly sunny and the water is clear. After school we headed to the Cay to try and find Camp Driftwood, a hill where a hermit once lived and, in more recent times, where drug enforcement agents observed the…

Tried a new twist on baked beans we found in a sailing cookbook. Add 3/4 cup raisins, a sauteed onion and a couple of tablespoons of sugar to a can of baked beans. Bring to a boil and cook for five minutes. Then let sit for 2 hours to let the raisins plump. It was…

We’re still in Normans Cay while the wind blows from the North. Yesterday started with a Lobster hunt at 0645 with Jesse from Contented Turtle and Jerry from Ministry. It was my first time trying the spear. We snorkeled for 2 hours and I never found a lobster in a hole, but the other two…