Today we decided to move Freedom from Marsh Harbour down to the Sea Spray marina. Originally we intended to make this move this coming Wednesday but given the tide situation leaving today gave us better depth going in. If we waited until Wednesday high tide was later in the day and close to darkness. What would you rather do, arrive a bit early on a rising tide in case you get stuck, or arrive at dusk on a rising tide? Two hours of daylight gained was enough for us to change the float plan.
I have to admit there were a couple of places we were sweating over the running gear but we made it in fine. The last turn towards South just in front of the little penninsula was well marked but the water looked very shallow. We stayed with the markers and it turned out to be fine. Some sort of illusion that was caused by sand in the water. Very odd, but it looked like a bar. Over it we went and here we are safe and sound.
We took a brief walk on the Atlantic side of the Cay and it was certainly different from the ride over. We had 1-2 chop following all the way from Marsh but the Atlantic was mixed up much better than that. It doesn't look bad in a photo but you wouldn't want to roll around in it all day.
If you follow the track on Google Earth you will see that we were almost half way to Hope Town with the dink ride we took the other day. Matt Lowe's Cay is worth a zoom in to see what a few bulldozers and dredges can do to an island. The down side is that it remains undeveloped except for the boating capabilities. Those are all individual yacht docks in there and there is no housing to back them up. Perhaps the economy and hurricanes convinced people building here was not a good idea? Whadever.
I've updated the gps data and more photos are uploading to the bucket.
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