Staniel Cay to Great Guana Cay

February 5, 2014

We were able to pull our jib sail out as we left Staniel Cay today but only kept it out for about half an hour because we turned and lost our wind – so the jib had to come down.  While it was up, we were really making good time and saving a lot of fuel.  It wasn’t a far trip to Great Guana Cay, only about 10 miles.  Apparently, this is one place everyone has been visiting because when we came in close we saw about 40 sailboats in the harbor area.  I’m not sure what the excitement about Great Guana Cay might be and what the big attraction is but we went ashore to find out.  We found lots of friendly locals and a few stores and a place or two to get a meal.  We went into Lorraine’s place and she was busy serving up food for quite a few people.  We had heard you could buy some fresh coconut bread from her mother so we went inside and inquired about it.  She assured us her mother had fresh bread and led us out back to the house next to her and we went inside and met her mother.  A really nice older lady with lots of fresh bread on the counter.  We picked up two loaves of coconut bread and a loaf of cinnamon raisin bread.  We left there and stopped at Adderly’s Store to see if we could find some fresh produce.  I was running way low on fresh items.  Mr. Adderly’s supply was low but he told us the mailboat was coming today and bringing supplies.  He said, “as soon as you see the big blue boat at the dock, come on in to town and we will have fresh produce in the store”.   We assured him we would be back.  On the way back to C-Time, we decided to skip all the local eateries and go back and dig into the bread.  We were not disappointed.  It was amazingly delicious! 

We had just finished our bread eating extravaganza when we saw the big blue boat coming into the harbor.  It was indeed a big (75’) blue boat.  Then we saw about 3 or 4 dinghies heading to town.  We quickly grabbed our shopping bag and took D-Time back to town.  We waited out front for about a half hour with some other cruisers waiting on the same fresh produce.  When we realized that the truck that brought the fresh produce had arrived at the back of the store, we made our way back there and helped them unload the truck.  Big crates of bananas, oranges, bell peppers, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, heads of lettuce – you name it, it had just arrived.  We loaded up on fresh items and took our goodies back to the boat.