Summer 2018 Update
It has been a few months since my last Blog Post, so I will provide a quick update on our recent activities.
Last fall we had planned to return to the US for 2-weeks to attend a family wedding in mid-March. However, as time passed, we decided to use this spring trip to the US to see several doctors for medical checkups. This medical scheduling stretched our spring US trip out to 6-weeks. We did not return to the Bahamas until the end of April.
Cove on Manjack Cay
When we returned to Hope Town, we immediately moved our boat, Satisfaction, from the Hope Town Marina dock out to a mooring ball in the harbor as we planned to do a lot of cruising around the Abaco for the month of May. We only had a 25-day time frame for cruising as we were scheduled to haul out our boat at Green Turtle Cay on 1 June.
May weather in the Bahamas is usually very settled allowing for anchoring almost anywhere. However May of 2018 was very different from the typical year. We experienced many days of 15-20 knot winds and an unusual amount of rainfall. As a result, we only got out of Hope Town harbor for 5 days.
Dena on Manjack Cay Beach
After a beautiful sail to Treasure Cay, we spent a couple days at Treasure Cay harbor getting a few supplies. From
Treasure Cay we sailed to a cove on the north east side of Manjack Cay and anchored out for 3 days. Manjack Cay is a very beautiful anchorage adjacent to the ocean. We spent a lot of time walking the beach and shelling.
This particular cove of Manjack Cay has one other interesting activity. I do not know how this happened, but over the years the stingrays in this area have become very tame and are not afraid of people. People place food in-between their toes, stand in the shallow water and the stingrays come right up to them and grab the food right from their feet. I have never seen this anyplace else in the Bahamas.
Manjack Cay is only about an hour motor to Green Turtle Cay. It takes us 4 to 5 days to get our boat ready for haul out for the summer season. Each year this is a necessary task, but, it goes without saying, this is the least enjoyable week we spend in the Bahamas.
Satisfaction at Anchor on Manjack Cay
For the first time in a long time we are spending the entire summer in the US at our home in Easton, MD. We have an older home and still have a lot of things to do to get our home updated. Home repair and visiting with family and friends will take up most of our summer.
Our traveling adventures begin again in mid-September when we depart on another European trip. It is our twentieth wedding anniversary so this trip will be a little more extravagant with stops in England, Spain, Italy, and Greece.
Satisfaction ready for haul out
Video of friendly stingray at Manjack Cay
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