Taia (English): George Town 2015

Before heading out to the Caribbean, we wanted to go the Exumas again. We wanted to check a few places where we've been last year and a few other Cays where we haven't been.

Our first stop was Pasture Cay, one of our favorite places in the Exumas. We snorkeled around a wrecked plane and swam in the natural sea aquarium with lots of fish.

Then we moved to Big Majors, as the kids wanted to see the pigs on the beach again. We swam in the Thunderbolt grotto where the 007 movie with Sean Connery was filmed in the 70s. We also got reunited with the crew of Hold Fast and Julianna II.

The following morning we picked up anchor and sailed, with Julianna II, to Rudder Cut Cay. This island is owned by David Copperfield and he commissioned a mermaid and piano underwater sculpture that is now quite famous among the cruising community. After a few minutes of dhinghing around the area where we new the sculpture was, we dropped the anchor and jumped to the water. The sculpture is about 10-12 feet at low tide, so it's not easy for the kids to dive and touch it. However, Matias and Camila tried a lot of times, until they managed to finally touch it. Way to go guys!

He did it! Way to go Matias

The next morning we sailed to Lee stocking, a place that seems out of a Stephen Spielberg film. Apparently the island was home to a Research Institute but a few years ago it got shut down and it looks like the people living there took whatever they could and left everything else: the houses are not locked, there's furniture, movies and books, a diving compression tank and even a truck sitting on the street.

Here we also saw April, Cain and Quinn, a lovely couple and their dog whom we met back in the summer in Jacksonville aboard Spirit of Argo. The kids immediately fell in love with Quinn and used to accompany April in her afternoon dog walk. This time, April and Cain, show us the art of getting coconut from the tree and then drinking the coconut milk. We had it first out of the coconut, with nothing else and it was quite tasty. Later, on their boat, we had it with Rum and it was even better.

Picking up coconuts to drink and eat

Drinking coconut milk for the first time.

After that we got to GeorgeTown. There's about 200 boats in the Elizabeth Harbour, and because of that, it's not one of our favorite anchorages. The good thing about GT is that there's lots of families with kids. We met Paisley and got re-united with Hold Fast, Skylark and Almost there. So there's been lots of play dates, sleepover and even a birthday party. It's been fun!

The funny thing about GT is that half the boats here are Canadian and most of those are French Canadian.