Hello,
We sat out a significant front here in Hog Cay on a park mooring. Nice new beefy gear so we felt nice and secure despite the winds gusting into the low 40’s from just about every direction. Strong currents make for exciting times when the wind and the current oppose. As in past visits, January is a very active month for cold fronts and affords short periods of cruising between longer periods of hiding from adverse winds.
In between fronts we have been enjoying ourselves. Snorkeling at Obriens Cay is always a favorite. The dive site is called The Aquarium and is in the park. People feed the fish here so you get swarmed as soon as you enter the water. Learning how to use my new GoPro camera so my underwater shots need work.
We are now at Cambridge Cay doing our stint as mooring field hosts for the park.We will be here a month. We give out maps, collect fees, maintain the trails and other duties in return for a free mooring ball in a little piece of paradise. The water in the Bahamas is very easy on boat bottoms. We had her cleaned in Key West in December and still no growth.
We are also participating in a fish research project for the Smithsonian. Whenever we anchor we drop a listening device into the water and it picks up signals from tagged fish. Unfortunately we will not know which fish we “saw” until we return the device in the spring.
One interesting adventure is a cave system called Rocky Dundas. At low water you can swim inside to see a spectacular grotto. Best on calm days. This is Lisa swimming out behind a friends from Mystic Star.
friendly Barracuda keeps an eye on us. Harmless but they open and close their mouth to breathe, showing some impressive teeth. The also like to follow along behind divers, just out of sight.
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