Bahama Update

Hello from the Bahamas. We are now located at Staniel Cay. This is where they filmed the James Bond movie Thunderball. We are going to dive the caves tomorrow and then start our trip back North. There are several Nurse Sharks that call this Marina home. They are about 6-9 feet long and they are really nothing to worry about, but they are neat to look at as the water is only 8 feet deep and very clear. Our longitude is 24.09, if you drew a a straight line to the east that would put us half way between the Keys and Cuba. To date we have gone 735 miles. We finally left Marsh Harbor last Sunday and sailed to Little Harbor. We had to wait on the in coming tide to get into the anchorage. Little Harbor is surrounded on two sides with high limestone walls. The place we ate supper was called Petes, nothing more that a hut on the sand. The next day we left Little Harbor, we had to wait once again for high tide, we started a little early and ended up heading the bottom and getting stuck. We were able to get off the sand bar and get to open water. Our next stop was Nassau. We got into Nassau at 11:30 PM and anchored to the right and right behind the Cruise Ships. We left Nassau at 8 AM and headed for Allen Cay, the home of the Iguanas. As soon as you got out of the dingy, those guys started for you. I am guessing the largest was 3 feet. They were only interested in our hotdogs, they would get about two feet from you waiting for you to throw them a hotdog. Why anyone would want one of those guys as a pet is beyond me, they are Ugly. We took off the next day after some snorkeling for Norman Cay. This was the headquarters for Carlos Ledher, a famous Drug Lord. Anyway we saw the plane in the water, a drug delivery gone bad and several houses that have been abandoned since the 1980s and one with several bullet holes. Carlos is serving life plus 133 years in the house of do right. Our wives will be flying into Marsh Harbour on June the 4th, so hopefully we will be there when they arrive. The weather forecast is good so it should not be a problem. To date we have caught 20 fish. We had a Mahi Mahi right up to the boat and for some reason we didn’t use the gaff and as we were pulling him into the boat, he got off. It made me sick. Been diving total of 5 times, I have yet to see the first lobster. More to come. Greg