Sunday, 1/20/13, Fishers Bay, Great Guana Cay

A beautiful sunny day. ‘Carolina’ headed out about 8:15 and we followed. It was one of those rare perfectly calm days and Ken took advantage of it to recalibrate the compass, doing slow revolutions in the middle of the Sea of Abaco. It worked and now the little boat on the chartplotter is headed the right way. We hailed ‘Astar’ to say we were on our way, then ‘Carolina’ hailed us to say they were heading back, that the waves in the Whale passage were huge and wild. We thought we’d go look, then someone hailed us to say no one would rescue us if we went out. We were just going to look… We, along with ‘Carolina’, thought we’d anchor at Munjack, a privately owned island and the owners like cruisers so we could walk their trails. We hail ‘Astar’ to tell them the change of plans and just as we get off the VHF, ‘Carolina’ hails us again to say they just talked to a boat that had come thru the Whale and they were turning around. Change of plans again! We are like the wind: one minute one direction, the next another, and we’re all fine with it….we are sailors, afterall. As we get closer to the channel the rollers get bigger. ‘Carolina’ makes it through okay then we go: huge rollers but nothing breaking. We pull into Fishers Bay, drop the hook, and jump in the water. Later ‘Astar’ and ‘Que Sera Sera’ converge on our boat for happy hour. ‘Carolina’ went on to Marsh Harbour.