This morning I was up with the chickens, seriously, the roosters are loud!
We ended up spending a full week here at Green Turtle Cay Club and that seemed like an eternity after our hectic trip south. Not entirely sure where we’ll end up today, we could go north to Manjack Cay, or south to No Name Cay, or we could go through the Whale Cay Passage to points farther south. We’ll be checking the weather and the waves when we get out of White Sound and figure it out then. The winds are supposed to die down during the day and overnight, there might be a breeze on the hook, but nothing like yesterday.
Yesterday we hunkered down at the Club during the wind and downloaded directions on how to clean conch and lionfish and a bunch of recipes that we need to try. We’ll be filling up with water on our way out, and this will be the first time I’ve paid for water and it costs $0.20 a gallon. Luckily we don’t need diesel yet.
I checked the graphical wind forecast, something that I’ve learned we need to follow closely here, and this is what I found:
Friday's Forecast
For those of you that have never seen one of these, you read the wind direction as the long barb, and the ticks on the barb are the wind speed. Short ticks are 5 knots, long ticks are 10 knots and just add them up. We’re due east of Florida and off that funny looking island that runs mostly north and south. The time is in Coordinated Universal Time and to find our local time (Eastern Standard) you subtract 5 hours. So this forecast is for Friday, January 6th at 1:00 p.m. There are no tick marks in our general area, so we won’t be sailing, my guess is that on Friday at 1:00 we’ll be diving somewhere on the barrier reef east of Great Abaco Island!
It’ll be cold, but hopefully the water will be nice and clear. We’ll post pictures the next time we have a good internet connection. I’ll try to keep the Spot on when we’re moving, but this will be our last post for a couple of days.
Safe travels!