Yesterday Morning we woke to a pleasant day in Nassau, anchored off of a Yoga retreat on the south shore of Pleasure Island. After listening to the Cruisheimer’s Net on the SSB, we found ourselves dragging anchor, rather rapidly. The holding in Nassau is notorious for being poor, so this was not a surprise. We re-anchored, but the set was not so great, so we went across the bay to try the “Main” anchorage. When there, we saw Quadrille, Fred and Bernice, who where weighing anchor to go to Allens Cay, our next stop. We quiclky thought it over, and decided to tag along with them. They are a really nice couple from Montana, on a Westerly Conway. We have a big place in our hearts for Westerlys.
We took a course that was south enough to avoid most of the coaral heads of the Yellow Bank, while not entering the White bank. Sort of threading the needle. Most boats just go over the Yellow banks, and keep a watch for the coaral. This was perhaps a safer route, but longer, adding at least two hours to the trip. We arrived at about 5:30, about 15 minutes from sunset.
Dina and Myron aboard Hold Fast answered our call when Gretchen asked for any boats in the Allens Cay anchorage that could tell us how things looked there. When we arrived, they came over on their dink and gave us some advice on shallow areas, and came aboard for a bit to visit. The anchoring here is great, it set immediately, and now we are going to go see the Iguanas. Yes, I said Iguanas!! There are hundreds of them on Pine Cay here.
