Mother Nature is in Charge!

About 2 hours into our journey north, Ben announced that the waves are going to be 4 footers the next few days instead of the 2 footers we anticipated from the last few days' forecasts. He and I made the quick decision to turn back and head toward the Exumas today.

A few hours into that new journey, he brought up stopping at Long Island for the night instead, cutting off a few miles and an hour or so from our journey. This sounded like a great plan, so that's what we did. 

We passed by the water side of the Columbus Monument that we drove to last week and anchored for the night by the Cape Santa Maria resort in Galliot Bay.

Heading toward Moriah National Park, once again, today. We shall see what the area offers as far as protection while anchored goes.

Moose and I were rockstars with grabbing the mooring ball at Redshank Cays. He had the boat hook and pulled up the eyelet on the first try. I pulled the starboard cleat line through first and tied it off. Ben was able to come out and we worked together to get the port line through the eyelet and tied off.

Ben and Moose went to Brown's for the fishing supplies that he had been looking for at every store for the past several weeks. They stocked up and when they got back, Moose put it all away.

I made lunch. Girls and I got ready for a beach tour day. When the boys came back, Ben took a look at the radar because he said it looked like a storm was heading our way. Nothing threatening on radar, so we took the tender out to explore beaches. 

We wound up circling Crab Cay, got off the tender once or twice (found a small beach with tons of snails, an abandoned resort, and a shipwreck) before going to George Town to check for bread and yogurt.

Unfortunately, the water conditions were not in our favor to get us over to Moriah on the tender. It looked like it would be 30-45 minutes with choppy waves on the bow, so we will just have to try again some other time.