Later Lucaya, and Hello Great Harbour Cay

 We finally got a break in the weather. We could have crossed yesterday but the forecast changed overnite. Fortunately the window that opened was at least two days wide so we geared up and left on the second morning at the crack of dawn. We had a great time on Lucaya, and enjoyed out stay there. The amount of time we were held up by weather worked out well enough so that we did not run out of things to do before the next window South opened up. Driving on the "correct" side of the road was different and in spite of that challenge we walked away from the rental without a scratch. Others were not so lucky.

 I heard the rental owner and employees talking about the fact that at least two cars had been totaled during the week we had ours. In fact our rental was delayed by another one. Maybe it was all that practice on the BQE with the TR-4A back in the 70's that prepared me. It could have been the taxi driving I did in Manhattan while in college. All 83 days of it. No matter what it was it worked.

 So I mentioned the weather window was two days wide right? HA! YOU FOOL!!! We caught you again the forecasters sneer. Feel free to insert your own expletives that reflect on the weather man.

 This is a screen shot of what "blew up in our faces" once we were well off shore heading for the Berries. The WxWorx is a "North up" view and the nav software is a "course up" view so things may not appear to line up well. Regardless we're out there where the container ships rule and cruise ships stop to let people hang out on relatively remove islands. It's certainly not like Long Island.

 Here is another screen shot of where we were at that time. As you can see we had some alternatives laid down that got us onto the "bank" at difference spots. In stead of driving into the weather not knowing how bad it really was we put the spurs to Freedom and she didn't let us down. It may not sound like much running her at 13 knots but she's running at about 80% at those RPM with a heavy load of fuel, water and "all that stuff what we take with us" when we travel. So the race was on and we pulled onto the bank by the cruise ships as the light rain set in. As it turns out the heavy rain disapaited just South West of the Berries.
 Cool. So the weatherman isn't so bad after all.

 So now we are on about 8 feet of water, and we're looking at all the dark spots thinking they are coral heads. Coral can do some serious damage to running gear. It's probably pushed it up into boats and pulled it out on others. They are quite solid and rock like but this time it turns out that they were grassy spots. So on we continue and we come up to a point where the island has been opened up to let people into what must be a man-made harbour (English spelling thank you very much).
 This is what we've been looking for so in we go and with that we are tied up at the Great Harbour Cay Marina.
 I've updated the GPS data and as we get some photos I'll add them to the bucket. But for now, we've been up since 4:30 AM getting the boat ready and piloting and it's time for a Bloody Mary!