Sunday April 21: Man-O-War Cay

On Thursday, it was finally time to leave Marsh Harbor - after all we'd been there a week! 

The winds were going to be blowing in a storm front on Saturday so we decided to move to Man-O-War Cay and spend a few days there. Randy and Cindy were headed back north and would join us there.

Only 6 miles so an hour trip. Still windy but still very easy travel across the Sea of Abaco.

The entrance to the harbor is one of the narrowest it seemed. Just make sure there isn't a boat coming out when you want to go in! Randy and Cindy had beat us in so it was nice to have help coming in. It was hard to figure out exactly where we were to dock. You know - directions like turn when you go past the big white boat. Oh, ok. And to which of the 15 big white boats might you be referring? Gotta love it ....

Lunch at a nice place right at the marina - with the discussion afterward centered on whether or not our boat was sitting on the bottom! The consensus was 'yep sure enough'. 

Low tide and we're in the front dock :-) It was only the front of the boat sitting so no problem.

Friday was again a beautiful day - still pretty windy though. Time to rent a golf cart again - the very best way to see the whole island. 

The roads are made for carts not for cars. The only evidence of anything other than golf carts was one small utility type of truck. Even the folks that live here use golf carts.

Pretty fun place - as long as you can remember to drive on the "wrong" side of the street!!

Sea of Abaco left and Atlantic Ocean right

It was a great drive to the northern middle of the island where the width of the land is such that you can see the Sea of Abaco to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

Steve viewing the ocean side of the island

Steve and Cindy

There is a nice public pavillion type structure at this narrow spit of land.

Cindy is still beside herself being in the Bahamas and seems to randomly jump for joy at the thought every once in a while :-)

She caught Steve in a contemplative relaxing position as he ponders the view :-)

A more relaxed ocean side view later in the day

In other words, stay off!!

Many of the homes are painted in fun colors and most are very nicely kept.

A popular style house was the shotgun or shogun style - a long narrow house with the front door directly in line with the back door. In theory this facilitates the cooling of the house using the offshore breezes.

Post Office

The post office was just cute :-)

As was this golf cart that was voted (by us) as the best on the island!

Cat on the boat one night :-)

The weather prediction was quite accurate with Saturday being overcast, cloudy, rainy and a bit of thunder and lightening thrown in.

It was a good day to relax and do some reading. The plan was to leave Sunday morning, travel to and anchor outside of Hopetown for a short time. Enough time for Randy and Steve to take the dinghy into town and then walk over to the Atlantic side to check out the reefs just offshore.

It was quite rough so not the best conditions but in settled weather it will be a stop to revisit.






Sunday morning as we prepared to leave, I went to the flybridge to get everything ready and look who I found!

The very cute and friendly cat had apparently enjoyed the night or morning in the toasty warmth :-)

Either that or she was studying the charts to see if she wanted to come with us!!