Bahamas to the British West Indies

It has been quite a while since our last post, not because we haven’t experienced anything of note, but because of difficulties accessing the internet. We've been to some rather remote places... As soon as we had a conducive weather window, we plowed our way south rather quickly, covering about 70 nautical miles a day, eventually arriving in Providenciales, aka “Provo”. It is the largest of the islands in the Turks and Caicos Island group, British West Indies. It is one of the places that Columbus was said to have made his first landfall on his historic voyage to the New World.

On our way from Marsh Harbor to Little Harbor, Abaco, Bahamas, we ran into sizable thunderstorms. One of these contained a microburst, which hit us with a spate of 100mph winds, like a small tornado… It damaged our Bimini Top Canvas, but didn’t blow it off the boat, thank goodness! We were able to have it re-sewn when we reached Rock Sound, a few days later.

Departing Little Harbor, Abaco on March 29th, we had a beautiful calm crossing to the Elutheras, which is the next chain of Bahamian Islands on the eastern side. We opted to skip Nassau, and the Exumas, not in need of the hustle and bustle of big city life, or the over crowded cruisers ports. Also, we are anxious to get to the Caribbean!

Leaving Little Harbor, Abacos, Bahamas - Heading out to sea.

Have you ever seen such deep blue water in your life?!!