Marsh Harbour and beyond…with friends

Here we are in Hopetown Harbour on a mooring ball. We just said a fond farewell to our friends who left to return to Marsh Harbour and then Ottawa and reality tomorrow! We will stay here in paradise 😉

I have so many pictures I have no hope of catching up with everything we did in the last week but here is a brief taste. And I’m in a coffeeshop on a battery so I will do my best!

This is our rendez-vous at Man-o-war Cay with our friends. They had just been swimming and snorkelling around Fowl Cay. We anchored out with them that night just outside the Cay. It’s fun to have a long lens. We were really not very close!

Tahiti Beach on Elbow Cay

Going in search of turtles in Turtle Pond on Tilloo Cay. And we saw some! I think this family are really fish — they hardly ever left the water the whole week!

Our friends chartered a catamaran called Spontaneity with a Captain (Sarah Gilmer). Here you see their boat to the left and ours to the right. The two dinghies are behind. The cat is shallow drafted so it is on a sandbar. We are a bit further out. We had dinner on their boat that night and a calm, beautiful sleep far from everybody!

Their cat was 42 feet and very spacious — here we are in Hopetown Harbour on a ball getting ready for a BBQ supper.

Bob and I sometimes took different routes than our friends because we had to go where the water was deep enough for our 5 foot draft. This is on the way to Hopetown on Elbow Cay

This morning’s sunrise in Hopetown Harbour.

Taken of all of us saying goodbye by Captain Sarah (who is 28 BTW and newly pregnant). You can see the lighthouse in the background — one of the only ones still lit every night. We are so happy that our friends had perfect weather and got to do everything they wanted. They sure crammed a lot into a week. I will have to do another post to supplement this one.