February 6, 2014
FINALLY we got to do some
sailing. As soon as we left the Great
Guana Cay this morning the winds were perfect – 15 knots and we pulled out both
sails, shut off the engine and before you know it we were going over 7 knots
(that’s fast for us). We were healed
over about 20 degrees. We were scooting
along! We made it to Little Farmer’s Cay
in no time at all, probably less than 2 hours.
We wanted to go to Little Farmer’s Cay because everyone we have been
running into has been telling us about the 5Fs event (First Friday
in February in Little Farmers Cay Festival) so we wanted
to check it out. It turns out we are
here in Little Farmers Cay with about 120 other sailboats/power boats all ready
for the festivities. The event starts
tomorrow, there is a sailing regatta, lots of games on the beach (egg toss, wet
t-shirt contest (I told Daniel it was okay with me if he wanted to enter it),
crab race, and lots of other stuff). We
were told that there is even a chicken poop game – you have a big board with
numbers on it, you let the chicken loose and whatever number it poops on, you
win money (if you had bet on that particular number) – chicken poop game, only
in the Bahamas.
Since we arrived a day early, we took D-Time
ashore and decided to explore the island.
We ran into some other cruisers and before you know it, 6 of us were
heading into “town”. Town has a couple
of small “convenience” stores filled with mostly canned goods and paper
products from the U.S. There are a
couple of small eating establishments, a school, a local phone company, a paved
aircraft landing strip, and a post office.
We walked the entire island in about 2 hours. After the walk, we were both hot, so we went
swimming. Just a relaxing day in the
Bahamas – wish you were here J.
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