George Town, Bahamas to Rudder Cay, Bahamas

June 6, 2014

We cleared customs and immigration in George Town and then made our way to a local yacht club for a nice lunch out.  Fried conch fritters and blue cheese burgers were delicious!  It was also really nice, for me, because there was no cooking or dishes to be washed – made my day.  After lunch Daniel had to refuel our jerry cans with diesel (there aren’t any marinas where you can dock and get fuel in George Town, you have to carry your jerry cans to the local gas station and do it yourself), and I made my way to the local grocery store.  It had been a little while since we were at a grocery store and we were out of our “staples” (milk, cereal, bread and eggs).   We stocked back up, loaded D-Time with the diesel and groceries and made our way back to C-Time.  We spent the night in the harbor at George Town and left the next morning for Rudder Cay.

The water in George Town harbor runs 7-13 feet which means, I spent a lot of the morning we left on the bow of the boat watching for coral and rocks.  We made it out of the harbor and Daniel put the sails up.  We were only going about 3 or 4 knots, but we really weren’t in a hurry, so I just settled down with a book and Daniel took his iPhone music to the bow and we relaxed through a lazy sail to Rudder Cay.  Once we found the anchorage, we took D-Time to explore.  We basically have the place to ourselves again, which is really nice.  We took D-Time and was able to go inside a couple of caves with it and look around.  Then we made it to a place at the end of a cove (in about 15-20 feet of water) where it is rumored David Copperfield had a statue of a piano with a mermaid playing the piano, dropped in the water.  It was awesome to see.  It was almost the size of a real piano and the mermaid was big too.  It was kind of strange to see it, just in the water there at the entrance to this cove.  We swam around it and took some pictures. 

This morning we took D-Time to another close by island that, at low tide, is joined to another island by a sandy beach.  I looked for shells while Daniel went snorkeling.  I walked both islands and enjoyed the beach walks.   It is always nice to “stretch your legs” on solid ground.