Rickadee is together again! We left Cambridge Cay early on Sunday, with the northerlies-turned-westerlies well in our favor for a great sail to find Ruach near Staniel Cay. We did indeed have a great, albeit somewhat splashy sail, and came up alongside them in their Big Major Cay anchorage (a short hop from Staniel) with no small amount of cheering.
A beach trip together before we headed around to Staniel made our Sunday complete, and while there was a lot of catching up, the familiar rhythms came easily.
Eight days from the last spot with services, and we reeeallly needed to empty our nearly-full lazerette of trash. We also needed to get some laundry done, a propane refill (we opted not to in Nassau, only to run out less than 24 hours out- thank goodness for the mini bottles for our grill, and an adaptor!), and food. Our snack count was at a painful-with-two-young-children low, and my meal plan going forward was largely banking on the very unlikely chance that a mahi would jump into the cockpit.
A day of school and ‘town duties’ of the above, and we’re back in business. (I still want that mahi, though.) Another front is forecasted later this week, so we’ll make our way to a fun place that we’re willing to hang for a couple/few days. Likely Warderick, as Staniel is our southernmost point of visitation for 2020. I’ll miss Rudder Cay, another favorite anchorage south of here, but the Land & Sea Park has everything we ever really want- sandy anchorages/mooring fields to easily swim off of the boat, hikes for exploration, good ocean beaches, calm west beaches, great snorkeling… hard to beat for our crew. What more could we ask for? (Answer: fresh mahi.)
Off to enjoy a quiet morning in the cockpit before the girls wake up and the ‘horrors’ of their school work are realized to them. It’s been better this year, but also worse, in that at her age, Lily is now carrying the responsibility of what is expected of her, so other than being a pestering nudge, and helping with a few math problems, I am not as interactive (read: harpy). The downside is that it’s mostly online, and we’re often… not, due to service. Our blips of wifi are frenzied, with me trying and failing to impress upon her the need to “Get it together and finish this work before we leave service!”. I have volumes on schooling, really, but the main points for now are: I am still the mean school marm in their minds, Violet is still in the zone of having simple tasks that are easy for her to complete so is kind of on the sidelines for the drama, I’m not as great as I should be about layering our unique experiences into their actual school items, which feels just silly and lame, Lily is a pre-teen with a pre-teen attitude, and I spend most of my time feeling guilty about all of it. So… same as ever! Fun stuff. There’s a reason the reading-in-the-cockpit time is so precious!
