We flew the coop yesterday, and had a very uneventful trip (the best kind!) from Green Turtle to Treasure Cay via Don’t [Hit the Giant] Rock Passage. Pouring over charts and seeing the shallows and coral heads marked makes things feel so obvious that it’s easy to forget that once you’re out there, it’s all just shades of blue. Being able to properly read the waters is an important thing here, as winds and tides shift the sand so often. And then of course it’s really only easiest to do with the sun directly overhead and not a cloud in the sky nor a ripple on the surface. Since that doesn’t happen too often, we end up putting a lot of trust into our navigation for ‘first routes’, and then tend to rely on our routes set for return visits to certain areas. That then allows us to gain confidence in reading the same waters from different weather and sun angles, adding to the mental database. (It’s chaos up here in at least THIS brain!) What’s extremely helpful is a very obvious above-the-surface point of reference, such as Don’t Rock itself. Kiiiiind of hard to miss. (Although there was a fairly large cabin cruiser stove up on a reef not far from there, and I would have thought that THAT would have been hard to miss, too.)
Anyhoo, we steamed through with ease and tied up alongside friends, whose boat makes our lil’ Chickadee seem even smaller than it’s starter to feel.
One of Treasure Cay’s many beautiful beaches is only minutes away by foot, and with the company of said friends, bikes, paddle boards and an outdoor shower on the dock on hand…waiting for a part to arrive from Florida will have never been so easy.
Post note: our electrical gremlin DID show up en route yesterday. I think we have to give him a name. (And more on that saga at a later date…)
