Little Harbour

We took 3 days and sailed to Little Harbour and back, the southernmost harbour on the Sea of Abaco. It was a beautiful day for sailing and we leisurely made it to Tiloo Cay anchorage Saturday night and spent a calm night there between fronts, the boat lazily going around in circles.

Sunday morning we got out of the anchorage and pulled up the sails before the rain and winds hit us. Taking a zigzaggy course around the sandbars, we came around in the lee of Pelican Cays where the surge was coming over the reef making a bumpy ride until we got behind Lynyard Cay. The entrance to Little Harbour faces north and with the strong north wind and the surge from the inlet, it looked like one of the Exuma Cays inlets, but little powerboats were coming in and out, bobbing up and down on the waves. And the entrance is shallow, 3 1/2 feet at MLW (mean low water), meaning most boats have to play the tides, and we waited until after midtide to be sure we'd have plenty of depth. Ken got out the directions to go in: head towards the large house on the west hill until in the channel, then turn and head towards the large house across the bay. I concentrated on the chartplotter and the channel and we powered through the waves until we hit the calm bay. We grabbed a mooring, rather a strange affair, looking like a flat disc in the water.

Little Harbour is the home of the late sculptor Randolph Johnston and his family. Sculptures grace the little village.