Left our choppy anchoring and headed north with the wind. A gorgeous, steady gentle wind that got our speed up to a constant 6 knots for the 4 hours sailing. The water is only about 2 m deep over white sand which gives its brilliant turquoise colour.
We planned to get into the Cay early (lunch time) so we could pick up one of the few mooring buoys available. We provided a good hour of serious entertainment for our yachty neighbours as we went round and round trying to pick up the line which was flailing around in the strong current. Finally thwarted we got Jeldi Jeldi our tender out – another Swahili word but unlike Pole Pole which means slowly slowly, this means quick quick. Rowan worked out it is much better to have a different name for your tender, so that when you’re out in the tender you’re not advertising the fact that you’re away from your boat.
Finally tied to the buoy, with a little help and advice from neighbours. We rushed into the little town for a quenching lunch at the very cute pub. Did a bit of provisioning shopping and headed back to Pole Pole.
Rowan had a lovely surprise for us which was to go and swim in a cave nearby that has amazing coral and fish. It was absolutely spectacular with a very narrow entrance to swim through, that the current was roaring through, which made it pretty difficult to get through, especially for Clint as we do not have fins big enough for his size 13 feet! There are holes in the roof that allows the light to shine through, so it looked like an aquarium in the cave. We were thrilled to be escorted out by a turtle. Jan absolutely loved it, it really was magical.
Another fantastic sunset followed by a brilliant sickle moon.
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