For the last two and a half weeks we’ve been enjoying our favorite and familiar islands of the Abacos. We started coming here 30 years ago with my sailing friend, Greg Cook from Jacksonville, so we know this island chain well. After a few days of repro…
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Spanish Wells & Harbour Island, Eleuthera
Spanish Wells & Harbour Island, Eleuthera
June 20, 2012
After living “lifestyles of the rich & famous” for five nights at Atlantis, it was time to return to the real world of cruising. To get to Spanish Wells, Eleuthera we chose to depart…
Nassau & Atlantis Resort And Marina
Too Much Civilization After The Out Islands?
June 16, 2012
After two nights at Warderick Wells, we slipped our mooring and traveled north 12 miles to explore uninhabited Shroud Cay. Small creeks traverse the mangroves from the western Exuma Bank side t…
Only A Hundred Miles To Cuba…Time To Turn Around
May 29, 2012
We enjoyed our visit to Black Point, a settlement of 500 souls, just south of Staniel Cay. Unfortunately, our visit was on a Sunday, so everyone was in church, and everything was closed. Six other boats joined us in the anchora…
Sunshine…Finally!
Sunshine…Finally!
May 26, 2012
The tropical low that gave us 4 days of rain and wind has finally pulled far enouth north, so the clouds broke, and alas…a gorgeous day. Unfortunately for the folks from Carolina to Jacksonville, it also develop…
Let’s Go Find The Exumas
We depart Nassau Harbor to the south and ran waypoint to waypoint through the shallows to Porgee Rocks. Now we set a southeast course to Highbourne Cay, our first stop in the Exumas. But first we have to dance across the “Yellow Bank”, a m…
On To The Berry Islands & Nassau
On To the Berry Islands & Nassau
May 18, 2012
After 4 days exploring Bimini, and waiting for the cold front to pass; it’s time to point Europa east and cross the Great Bahama Bank to Chub Cay in the Berry Islands. It was an 11 hour day with s…
A Perfect Crossing…Well Almost!
We enjoy traveling the Keys on the “bay” side, as EUROPA can negotiate the skinny water, and we can enjoy the scenery winding thru mangrove channels, and taking in the sites. So we departed Marathon Yacht Club and had an uneventful 70nm to…
Warderick Wells Exuma Land & Sea Park
If there were only time to make one stop in the Exumas, this is the place that best displays the natural beauty that keeps cruisers coming back year after year. The island of Warderick Wells is the headquarters of Exuma Land and Sea Park, but on…
Where Ya Going? – South!
Where Ya Going? – South!
April 27, 2012
Hopeful to explore the Exumas, but realizing “all cruising plans are written in water”, we leave Clearwater ahead of an approaching cold front. Sarasota’s Bird Key Yacht Club is our first port. …
