Cave Cay - no Covid, no water
We stayed all of Christmas Day on Williams Cay. What a great spot. Makes you wonder, is this the first of many fantastic stops or will we look back and say this topped them all? Either way, we did have a great Christmas Day on the island. Or at least those of us who weren’t sick… Sixten felt better and joined the beach party, but Chris felt crappy and so did Justus.
We splurged with a bottle of bubbles on the beach to mark the holiday. The bottle was courtesy of a charter boat captain who dinghied over and asked for allergy medicine for a bug-bitten guest. In return for the antihistamines, he offered up a chilled bottle as a token of appreciation. Nicely done and definitely appreciated.
Then, early this morning, Sunday, Chris and I brought Sixten in the dinghy to the dock of the Barraterre settlement on the north end of Great Exuma island, a few miles from our anchorage. We had arranged for a taxi pickup for the airport and all worked out great. We didn’t get lost, we didn’t run out of gas, we didn’t bury the outboard onto a shallow sandbank or a metal crushing reef, we made it on time and we didn’t get soaked. And then, after dropping off Sixten, we did it all in reverse. Plus Sixten ended up testing negative for Covid once he got to the airport. Clearly too much good fortune.
So we paid for that with a massive cluster-F of oil spill and clean-up of the starboard motor after we fired up the engines. The oil dipstick had not been put back in tightly after an earlier engine check and oil splashed all over the engine and bilge. Everything has to be learned the hard way apparently. And two more observations; you really can’t bring too much paper towel onto a boat and you need a skinny and reasonably flexible yogi to access the crevices that oil can make it into in the bilges of a boat.
We did get underway eventually. It was tempting to stay put, but we had run out of water - the water maker is still non-operational. We exited out of the bank side to the Atlantic side and had a very nice sail north-west along the island chain to Cave Cay. Then another sleigh-ride in through a narrow cut in turbulent waters to the bank side. Now we are docked in a small and comfortable marina with water and electricity. Showers, dishes, laundry - good to catch up and tidy up. The water maker is moving up to #1 on the fix-it list.
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