Monday, May 27, 2013

Day 7, time to move on. The life of the gypsies.

We woke up the next morning with the looks of sun in the sky and the hopes that most of the rain has passed. I am looking forward to hanging up all of our wet laundry and towels on the lifelines to dry.
On our motor over, 5 miles with no wind, we saw a nurse shark in the water below us. It was about 7 ft. in length. We circled back around to get a longer look. What a beautiful mammal.
We are headed on to Great Guana Cay. It is the home for the famous Grabbers and Nippers. Two bar and grills that are talked about among the cruisers. Both of the bars have swimming pools so that you can soak and drink. We were pretty excited to get into them and rinse off but were surprised to find out they were salt water. Ha! That figures. The drinks are expensive. $14 for a bottle of Sands beer and a rum and diet coke. We didn't stay to party it up with everyone there. it would break the bank. Lol! But I took lots of pictures. We did meet a pilot who has a house there that gave us directions to a gorgeous beach and it has a great reef to dive on. So we headed out in search of the beach on foot.
The town is very small. Only about 300 people live here. It took us maybe 5 minutes to walk to the beach and we oohed and ahhed when it came into view. The sand is creamy white and so delicate beneath your feet. It feels like sugar, small grain. The water is aqua and you can see right through it.
We walked the length of the beach until we came to Nippers. We got a drink there each, to say that we did, and headed out to walk the town. There isn't a lot to see here and the bugs are  everywhere. The noseeums were bighting us up. This was the worst place for them so far. And dang they hurt.
We grabbed a few groceries and headed back to the boat to unload and grab our snorkel gear. We went back to the same beach we walked and went out for a dive, we saw all kinds of fish. We used the Go Pro as well and got some great footage. We need to figure out how to load that. We saw a sea turtle as well. He was really neat. Life under water is calm, quiet and rythmic.
We headed back to the boat , made dinner and turned in. The sun, swimming and walking about really is more tiring then I would ever expect.

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like you've slipped right into the cruising life! Congrats!

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