After two days at Highborne Cay it was time to find a new anchorage. An anchorage that would provide protection from the coming northerly winds. After a look at the charts, nearby Normans Island looked like our best option. We'd spend four days stuck at Normans and while that sounds dreadful, four days stuck in the Bahamas is really not so bad. After all we had a beautiful beach and an inland pond to explore.
On the fourth day we turned on the radio and heard a familar voice on the other end. It was John on Marylee. While we were anchored on the east side of the island he, Mary and Goliath were anchored on the west side. Once the winds subsided we hoisted the hook and surfed through Normans Cut (as the waves were still quite wicked) to locate Marylee.
Friends and a new location could only mean two things - happy hours and more gunkholing. Our gunkholing tooks us to the sand bars at Normans at low tide where we found plenty of conch. After collecting what looked like the most mature specimans we went ashore and had a conch cleaning party. Conch - always delicious but lots of work to clean and prepare.
The Admiral
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