The Vacation is almost over

The Vacation is almost over.  The past two weeks we have sailed to Tilloo Cay, (just south of Hope Town), Guana Cay and now we are anchored in Manjack.   Time to go to work.
    Tilloo Cay and Hope Town where very nice.  We had to anchor down at Tillo, due to our draft and would take a 4.5 nautical mile dinghy ride into Hope Town.  Tillo was a nice protected cove for a North, south or east wind.  Bad for a West wind.  So we stayed there for about five days before the winds started to shift more out of the NW.  Our travel to Hope Town was nice, it is like a little quaint village.  All the houses in town are cottage size, with lovely landscaped yards and white picket fences.  The people seem to work together nicely and are very polite.  I found a art gallery named “The Jib”, it is owned by a German couple.  He is the painter and she is the quilter.  She makes these neat necklaces out of beads and fabric, also purses (which I got one of each for my birthday).
    Our next sailing trip took us to Guana Cay.  In all our years of sailing to the Bahamas, I have always wanted to go to Nippers on the beach.  Well I finally made it.  We had a delicious blackened grouper fish sandwich and then spent the next couple hours celebrating a birthday with complete strangers (a group of about 10 women).  They were so much fun.  That evening we had three other couples from neighboring boat over for drinks, it was very nice.  We only spent two days at Guana, with the weather changing.
    There is a passage you have to go through to get north of Guana to the rest of the Abacos “Whale Cay Passage”  if the winds are out of the NE or East it can be a very rough turbulent ride.  So we left first thing in the morning before the winds picked up, since they were out of the NE.  It took about 2.5 hours to get to ManJack Cay, which is one island north of Green Turtle.  Our plan is to stay in this general area, switching between here and Green Turtle or Crab Cay (depending on wind direction and weather) for the next 6 weeks.  This is a nice area to be and we are now starting to do some work on the boat.  Why not do it here in paradise.  It may be several weeks before I post again, until then. Fair winds and Happy Sailing my friends.