Emerald Rock

Noah Diving

Hi again from Warderick Wells. We obviously like this spot. After school yesterday, Noah and I tried the floating tricycle at Powerful Beach. It was a real workout to keep even with the current. Building a big sandcastle was more our speed. In the afternoon we spent more time snorkeling around Emerald Rock, this time with friends from See U Manana and Contented Turtle. That is Noah snorkeling in today’s photo. While Noah was in school, I went up to park HQ and tried to update the Blog using the internet connection. $10/day buys a flaky signal that wasn't good enough to complete the update. If there are problems with the site, it is due to my experiments from here. Anyway, it still wasn't bad as I sat with a Bananaquit perched on the monitor criticizing my lack of foresight to bring some sugar along. After dinner we threw the few table scraps into the water behind the boat and they were immediately consumed by some two foot long silver fish with yellow tails. Fun to watch. Good thing for them that the park is a "no take" zone or Noah would have had a line in the water. The two other crews joined us for a dessert of Beth's fresh baked brownies, and then we all went ashore to crash a beach party sponsored by the dive boat AquaCat. They didn't mind a few cruisers joining in the bonfire. Spoke with a couple of the divers from New Hampshire and they were thoroughly enjoying their week-long concierge dive. They couldn't quite understand how we had only used 50 gallons of water in two weeks.

As I'm typing this a Bananaquit just flew into the cabin to check us out. Bang -- the mooring ball hit the boat as the wind and current are opposing one another. Disconcerting, but not a real problem. Going out to investigate we spot a ray beside the boat. Jumping down into the dinghy, I lifted the look down hatch to get a better view. He (or she) is a beautiful Spotted Eagle Ray with probably a 3-4 ft wingspan, the first we've ever seen.

P57 of the Royal Bahamian Defence Force came in last night and headed out this morning to investigate a report of a boat of Hatian Refugees spotted south of here.

Back when we were in Titusville, we were interviewed for an internet webcast. We received an email that it is now available for listening at www.furledsails.com

Our current plan is to stay here again tonight and then head down to Sampson Cay to fill up on gasoline for the dinghy, fill our water tanks, and reprovision the fresh food locker.

We understand that the northern US has been getting hit with ice storms. Hope that power is restored quickly and there isn't too much tree damage.

Fun with a Tricycle