Over to Green Turtle

 As some may know, there are two paths from Green Turtle over to Guana Cay or Marsh Harbour. One either goes around Whale Cay and then on to either destination or one choses to run the Dont Rock passage. Since many folks have banged up quite a bit of gear running the later, we have avoided taking that route. Even though we have received tracks from folks that have done it, we've never seen the need.

 Not even today. In spite of a bad report by a new neighbor that ran the Whale yesterday we set off around 10 am for Loggerhead channel. The ride from Orchid Bay Marina was calm enough and along the way we passed reasonably close to Madsummer which happens to be in town again.
 What a boat.
 We're not talking the NYS lottery here. She's a 257 foot Lurssen, and I think the weekly charter rate is somewhere around a mil a week PLUS expenses. I'm thinking fuel is not included. That being the case, we'll up the ante to a robust Mega Millions winner, and you had best be the only one if you want this boat.
 But once past Madsummer which was on the hook with Spoil (Shell) island in the back ground, we motored into Loggerhead channel. This channel can be quite confusing even though the channel is obvious with the changing water colors. It's confusing because the markers are all rusted to the point they all look red. So keep your plotter handy and watch the color of the water until you are into the Atlantic.
 And that's where the fun started.
 We found ourselves in 4-6 foot rollers out of the North, and a foot or two of chop out of the East on top of that. Not exactly washing machine material but we certainly rolled quite a bit. Adding to the pleasure was our leisurely pace of about 8 knots. So we were proud to experience this for about 45 minutes. After that we turned and had the swell to our stern and the ride improved dramatically. All in all it was a good day on the water getting us to the Bluff House on Green Turtle Cay.
 So with a bit of a sigh we have moved away from our Winter home in the Abacos. Elbow Cay and Guana Cay. We had a great time with all of the folks on both islands and will miss them over the Summer.
 Hopefully we all get to meet up again next year. Have a great Summer everyone!

GPS data has been uploaded, and I'll add more photos to the bucket later on.