Long Gone in Great Guana Cay

January 7 – Green Turtle Cay Anchorage
Position: N26º 31’.992 W077º 01’628
We spent the night at anchor so that we could take off early on Friday through the Whale and onto Great Guana Cay.

January 8 – Made it through the Great Whale Passage! We’re in Great Guana
Position: N26º 40’.088 W077º 06’974
We were the “guinea pig” boat who left the earliest to make it through the Whale. We called back to our “buddy boat”, Bonnie Lass and gave her the report. Swells were 3-4 ft. but nothing breaking and it was much easier than we anticipated. We were lucky. Once we gave our report, everyone pulled up anchor and left either Manjack Bay or Green Turtle. We are anchored in Fisher’s Bay off Great Guana Cay. Chris and I are “real” cruisers now – we took the dinghy into Orchid Bay and snuck in the marina to use their showers are we are on our last tank. While getting off the dinghy, we saw our first shark. He was a biggie – about 6 ft. long. I wanted so much to get a photo of him but couldn’t get the camera out of the dink fast enough and surely didn’t want to fall in while he was around! We walked over to “Grabbers” for a rum drink and then onto the famous “Nippers”. The beach here in Guana is gorgeous – very wide with lots of white sand. We’re going to stay in the anchorage another night so we can explore Great Guana a little bit more. There are 2 wi-fi spots in town so I’m writing this aboard and will upload when we go to Grabber’s for our afternoon Grabbers Sundowners – a rum drink that has probably the equivalent of ½ rum and ½ pineapple juice with bits of other things thrown in for good measure.