Well, we escaped the Land of the Lotus-Eaters.

After returning from Seattle we sailed south to George Town, Great Exuma, the southern terminus for most visitors to these islands and a place where people stay for weeks on end. (One of its nicknames is “Chicken Harbor” because few boats have the courage to go further south — there are almost no people, water or provisions until you get to the Dominican Republic.) We saw over a hundred boats spread across the bay when we arrived. This was actually fewer than usual; in normal years there can be three or four hundred.

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While visiting Seattle, we’ve taken advantage of the fast Internet to add pictures and videos to some of the posts that were originally made via our Iridium GO! satellite hotspot. Check out these updates:

• Whether the Weather Be Fine
• Bahamas Been Berry Berry Good So Far
• Anchors, A Way
• Location, Location, Location
• One If By Land, Two If By Sea
• 00Soren
• Staniel, Majors, and Point, LLP

We also added a boatload of photos (see what I did there?) to what are now a whole series of photo galleries.
Hope that you enjoy these updates as much as we’ve enjoyed our time in Seattle so far!

Not the Bahamas…

We had originally hoped and planned to have my parents visit us in the Bahamas, but my mom’s current cancer treatment regime prevents her from traveling. Instead, we decided to come to Seattle to help celebrate her birthday. It’s sort of a bizarro spring break, trading the warm, sunny, and dry Bahamian climate for Seattle’s cold, dark, and wet March weather, but we’re excited to see family and friends, and have a long list of Seattle outings in the offing.

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It’s continuing to be a hootenanny down here, or whatever the Bahamian equivalent is. After Warderick Wells we headed for Staniel Cay, the biggest settlement we’d seen in the Exumas thus far, although its population probably topped out at a hundred. It’s a popular spot for cruisers, though, thanks to a few unique sights.

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Today I went swimming in Thunderball Grotto. It was the set of the James Bond movie “Thunderball.” It was AMAZING! You have to swim underwater to get in. When you do, you can see all these fish, and if you take stale bread with you, you can hold a piece of bread in front of you underwater. Then, the fish will all swim up to you and eat out of your hand. LITERALLY. Or you can just drop a chunk of bread in the water and watch the fish fight over it. I think, however, that you should see the photos and videos.

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