June 5 - Leave for snorkeling at Sandy Cay and then on to Conch Inn Marina at Marsh Harbor. Winds are predicted to be light but they pick up to middle teens early on. There’s too much swell to make snorkeling at Sandy Cay much fun for us, so we continue on to Marsh Harbor. Top off our fuel (49 gallons at $6/gallon) and get into our slip where the marine electrician I contacted is waiting for us to trouble shoot our battery charger/generator problem. Turns out problem is not battery charger… Read the Full Log Entry

Perhaps the prettiest location I've ever seen.

Large pink buildings are Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island.

May 7 - Kryss and I take a long walk in the morning to the Sound side of the Island and get to Pirate Beach which is a small secluded beach next to a tidal pool that opens out into the open Sound. It’s very pretty but the walk to it is up and down hills and longish, and it’s not for the fainthearted. On the way back we check out one of the two small grocery stores in town, and find that one of the two restaurants not associated with Staniel Cay Yacht Club is not open for dinner and that the… Read the Full Log Entry

April 29 - Kind of rolly overnight. Swells come in from the ocean even though you wouldn’t think they would given that we’re in close to a lee shore. Apparently they swing around the Cay when they come in through the cut. It’s a nice morning and when two of the four boats in the inner harbor leave we go back in to investigate anchoring there. We drop the hook in about 11 feet of water in the middle of the cut at middle tide. There’s a ridge in the middle so we have more water as we swing to… Read the Full Log Entry

April 22 - Leave N. Cat Cay in light easterly winds at 6:30 a.m. Wind is supposed to be N/NW, which would be good for our course. East is "death". We’re heading directly into the sun as it rises, and it’s quite a sight. We put up jib to give it a try but our course is too close to the wind and we take it in almost immediately. We’re motoring at about 5.5 knts. and will not make Chub Cay in daylight at this rate. Just have to wait and see what develops. The water along our course over the… Read the Full Log Entry

April 21 - Wind is down as somewhat as predicted and we expect to leave for N. Cat Cay middle of the day. Atlantic still has substantial swells from the last few days, but it’s only a ten mile trip onto the Great Bahama Bank to position ourselves to go to Chub Cay tomorrow. Our neighbor leaves for Gun Cay at about 11:00 and we leave for adjacent N. Cat Cay at 11:45. Departure from dock is uneventful but trip out of the channel requires care as ocean swells are coming in as is tide and tide… Read the Full Log Entry

April 16 - Slept until almost 9:30 a.m. Guess we were more than a little tired. Nothing planned for the day and I’m all about doing as little as possible. Kryss and Steve and Jane rent a golf cart to go to Resorts World a new major time-share facility (numerous small houses), casino and marina at the South end of North Bimini Island. It is still very much under construction. But for that, there’s nothing much on the Island and we spend most of our time reading, trying to figure out the… Read the Full Log Entry