CODA STILL HERE IN THE BAHAMAS 2025 (30)

CODA : exploring the Exuma Islands, Bahamas.

9 February 2025 

Elizabeth Harbor central anchorage, Georgetown, Great Exuma Cay, Bahamas  

Well anchored with at least 200 other boats here tonight.

Marc-  The weather forecast made me do it.  The long range weather indicated that the next (after today) good weather day to travel down Exuma Sound (Atlantic Ocean) to Georgetown was February 16th.  We were out of Black Point at 07:30 with light favorable winds and no waves as we sailed down to Little Farmer's Cay.  There were still many boats anchored around the Island after the Inter Island Regatta and other weekend festivities.  Sue suggested that we should anchor and check the place out.  Oh no. I was on a mission to take advantage of the 24 hour weather window so we proceeded.

As soon as we arrived at Little Farmer' Inlet you could see the turbulence of wind against tide.  The mistake that I made was assuming the conditions outside the inlet were as predicted (fairly calm seas and light winds.  The Inlet waves and turbulence lasted only 10 minutes.  The ocean conditions of six foot swells, intersected by SE wind driven waves of 3 feet,  made you feel like you were in the middle of a washing machine.  Unfortunately the latter lasted for 4 hours until conditions improved during our approach to Georgetown.  We anchored in the middle of the harbor so as to be able to get to the village easily as well as the barrier beach Island.

Sunrise at Black Point.

We had a short rain shower once out in Exuma Sound.  Quite a rainbow Eh?

Yes we made it to this colorful town.

We took the dinghy into the inner Harbor, which is called Lake Victoria, where we saw this little boat called "Barbie Boat," a traditional Bahamian racing boat.

Although we could not see the sunset, the sunset 

was reflected.

We went to a restaurant called Peace and Plenty where we ate at the bar and watched the first quarter of the Super Bowl.

7-0 Philadelphia.  It was all downhill from here for Kansas City.

Sue:  It was a miserable day.  It was supposed to be a calm day on the water, and it wasn't.  It was a relief to get to Georgetown.  I can hardly believe how big the harbor is.  We walked around Georgetown Village.  It was 5pm by the time we got there, it was Sunday, and everything was closed but some restaurants.  It's the biggest city we've been to yet (we never did get ashore on Nassau) but I didn't see much to explore another day on our brief walk around.  Tomorrow we'll check out the beach and walking trails.