STARFISH AND DRONE FUN

We are having fun here at Big Major's anchorage near Staniel Cay. We are paddle boarding, swimming and snorkeling along with using our drone.

This cool starfish I picked up while paddle boarding and brought back to the boat for some pictures. It was a heavy and big one!

This smaller, different type of starfish was found just near a beach. Someone else is holding this one while I take the photo. It's arms/legs moved fast and furious.

We snorkeled the Thunderball Grotto.... but NOT at slack tide. We found it challenging to get back to our dinghy. We rested while hanging on to a rock and this fan was below it. I took advantage to take a few cool shots of this huge purple fan. We will not go again unless it is slack tide. The tides are extra low and high and therefore they run out fast. 

While getting some produce in Staniel Cay, this plane had just arrived with a few passengers. 

This was a stormy evening a few night ago. The sky looked terrible but beautiful too. The storm never came to our boat. Whew! But some like all that fresh water to rinse off the salt.

Paul is the "navigator" of our drone. Some great shots and video. I have posted a video on previous post and on my Facebook page.

Notice all those solar panels up there! I am standing in the side doorway. It was beautiful, calm and low tide when Paul took off and landed on the flybridge. He did a great job. We got pictures of some friends' boats too. 



This is a puffer fish. I saw one swimming under our swim platform yesterday, too fast to take a photo. They are real cool fish. Not for eating!

GOPRO DRONE FOOTAGE

I am sending a link to drone footage that Paul edited down to 1 minute from 7. It was a calm day at Sampson Cay. Hope you like it.
https://gopro.com/v/NlQ2GaOqNGJmr

STANIEL CAY FIELD TRIPS

We are anchored at Big Major's here near Staniel Cay and enjoying being close to civilization, beaches and the stores where we can buy produce. We spent $59 for the following as some may be interested:
3 avocados $3 each, 1 mango $5, green onions (7 in the pack) $3, 6pk of hot dog buns, 4 tomatos, 4 bananas, 1 3pk of romaine, 1 very small cabbage, 2 dozen eggs ($4.75 per), 1 red pepper, 1 pear, 1 small cucumber. Everything comes by boat, usually 3 times a month.

Staniel Cay Yacht Club rents out real cute cottages here on the water. The colours are so splendid.

The Pig Beach is a super popular tourist attraction now! This very large float plane landed near the beach. It probably came from Nassau or Georgetown. After the tourists visited and fed the pigs, a boat came to the beach to pick them up and take around the area. 

Tried a selfie even though I could not see my phone screen.

We leave the big boat Time Out anchored while we take the dinghy around on our "trips". Yesterday we packed a lunch and went to Little Pipe Creek, and Pipe Cay. This was timed according to the tides, because low tide is awesome! Pictures just don't capture the beauty.

This above homemade pizza is not uncommon on board but that picture shows the first time I have barbequed it! We were so worried but came out awesome! Now no more generator on when I need to put the oven on. Yipee!

BLUES, BLUES AND MORE BLUES

Need I say anymore?

WE ARE IN THE EXUMAS.

BETTER IN THE BAHAMAS!

We have arrived!! We travelled down the ICW to Ft. Lauderdale and were able to spend the night at a friend's dock as they themselves are in Exumas on their boat. We had fantastic travel days all the way to Bimini to check in to Customs. Sunrise is when we left for Chub Cay, as that is our longest travel day of 10 hours.

Alice Town, Bimini sunrise. Blue Water Marina

This is my brand new full face snorkel mask. Nothing in my mouth now! I tested it only in the pool at Vero Beach. It worked great there and this is fantastic here too. No fogging and I can mount the GoPro on it. So looking forward to taking awesome pictures and sharing here.

Paul relaxing on the top deck with our Tiki Umbrella!

This Tiki Hut we found on our travels down the ICW. We see many interesting boats.