Day 11 We slipped our lines from the Old Bahama Bay Marina and Resort We left with eight other boats past the marina break wall and headed north and east to take the channel that leads into Little Bahama Bank. The Bank is between the north barrier islands and Grand Bahama Island. See the chart below. The first one shows the cut we had to negotiate and the second one shows almost all of the Northern Abacos -Bahamas. Following our waypoints, we navigated through the small islands and shoals just north of West End Grand Bahama to gain access to the Little Bahama Bank. It is another sunny day with winds 8-12 knots and seas one foot or less. As we exit the shoal areas, we head East Northeast toward Mangrove Cay, water color becomes more aquamarine with depths of mostly 10 feet. The waters are so clear, you can see the all the way through to the bottom. We are traveling with two navigational tools, Garmin and AquaMaps as we must rely on our electronics and compas...
Lay day in Lake Worth. March 31 . Day 9 and Cruising to the Bahamas. April 1 Day 10. Miles 64.4. Total miles. 319
I am writing this blog and will add our travel day to the Bahamas on as an update tomorrow because we will be traveling eight hours and will be tired when we arrive. So will post today and will update the same post when we have completed the crossing tomorrow late afternoon. Day 9 Spent a lay day in North Lake Worth cleaning and prepping the boat for the crossing. Not too exciting! Since it is such a boring day - blog wise, I decided to regale you with some Bahamian geography! Here goes - The Bahamas are a collection of over 700 islands or cays which sit atop a plateau just off the east coast of Florida. The islands stretch from West Palm Beach to the north to just 30 miles from Cuba at their southernmost point, covering over 500 miles. The cays are low lying with few hills over 100 feet. These cays have a limestone base which is worn by wind and water and honey-combed with caves. The waters surrounding the Bahamas vary from the Little Bahama and Great Baha...