Sunday, December 4th, Manjack Cay anchorage

Finally remembered the Cruisers’ Net at 8:15am, VHF68, and got the weather report from Troy: strong NE winds through Tuesday, abating some on Wednesday, then another front approaching. No ‘Whale’ report.

Once onto the banks in the Abacos, the next thought is getting around the ‘Whale’, an island where we have to go out the Whale Cay Channel and around Whale Cay then onto the banks through the Loggerhead Channel to the other side of the Abacos. Sometimes one can be caught on one side or the other for some time before the weather cooperates. If the weather is wrong, the channel can ‘rage’, a mixed up impossible mess to traverse.

We went ashore again and hiked to Coconut Beach then back to the ocean beach. We met Al from ‘Baroda’ and Bill and talked weather for some time. Bill said there’s been one front after another going through the Bahamas and people have lost their lives going through the inlets when they are raging. Even the supply boat got caught up on a reef and was there 5 days until they could motor it off, it sturdy enough to take the beating.

We went back to the boat and charged the batteries with the generator. We might as well languish here another day….a gorgeous setting, beaches to comb…