Hawksbill Cay

4-23-2013

These pictures were taken traveling from Warderwick Wells. We had a some rain the morning we left and these are of the rainbow.

We had a very easy trip to Hawksbill Cay. The water was very calm. Well, except for the dark cloud that followed us and the waterspout! David called us on the VHF and told us to look back to our port and see the waterspout. And we did. We were glad we weren’t near it.

We hiked to the top of this hill. We will think of it as "haircut hill"!

Our beach

Sunset

We had a lazy afternoon then ate with Emma and David on FFF. We had a spicy Thai dish that was great. They bought the seasoning packets in Thailand, so the instructions were in Thai, so how would we know how to fix it? We were glad that Emma had translated the instructions, it was good!

We went for a hike on the island. The trail was very steep and rough, but we had a great view from the top. Guess what Emma and David did at the top? You’ll never guess, so I’ll tell you. Emma gave David a haircut! On an island, in the Bahamas, on a hill, overlooking our boats. Hey, it was a great location.

Us and Escape

A view from the top

Just take a little off the top!

The trail
 

You can see the coral heads near our boat.

 We sat on the beach for a long time, just enjoying the scenery.

Our dinghy at the beach.

A view of the boat from the beach.

There were coral heads all around our boat, but we didn’t go snorkeling here. I have decided its impossible for me to get back into the dinghy from the water. When we snorkeled in other places, we were able to anchor the boat in shallow water so I could get back in the boat. So, we didn’t snorkel. FFF did and saw lots of fish.

We met a Dutch family that has a boat just like FFF. So of course we went to see their boat. They have 2 beautiful kids, Alishia and Luca. We enjoyed visiting with them. We had an old chartbook that we gave them. They were leaving there heading to US spending some time going up the coast and ICW to be in NYC in mid June to fly back home to go back to work. They had taken a year off to travel. Shay helped the man with a dinghy problem and I sent a jar of peanut butter to the kids. The mom bakes bread everyday and the kids had bread and peanut butter for breakfast. They loved it. We wish them safe travels. The morning before we left he came to our boat to visit and brought us a bar of chocolate from Cuba. Of course we can’t take it back to the US, so we ate it. It was different tasting, I guess I’m not used to fancy chocolate, just good old milk chocolate.

Moonrise over the island!

 We are heading to Shroud Cay tomorrow. 


Bye beautiful island!