Well we are still here in Rock Sound. There are now about 20 boats here all waiting for the front to pass. The days have been full with boat chores, trips into town for fuel, water and provisions, reading and watching old movies.
We have been fortunate that we have been able to take the dinghy ashore for Moose even with the high winds. The NE winds have blown all the water out of the little area where we dock our dinghy. We had to tie it to the rocks and carefully step across the rocky shoreline to get to the ladder up to the restaurant area which leads to the highway through town.
Yesterday a group of 8 of us plus Moose walked across the island to the Atlantic side to watch the breakers. It was beautiful and awe inspiring to see the waves crashing onto the beach. The sand from the dunes was blowing into our eyes and I put Moose under my jacket to try and keep the sand out of his eyes.
The winds have been pretty steady in the 20's gusting to 30 every now and then and we have had some rain squalls over the past 2 days. John is below listening to Chris Parker's 6:30 a.m. weather broadcast to see if we can finally leave tomorrow morning for Hatchet Bay. Many of the boats will be leaving some going on farther to Current Cut which is a narrow cut in the island to pass through to the north side in preparation to cross the open ocean to the Abacos. We are hoping to meet up with friends in Hatchet and then travel on through Current Cut. One has to catch it at slack tide as the current is very strong and makes it difficult to travel through so we will have to time our arrival to hit the slack ebb or flood. Once through we will wait at Royal Island, a small sheltered harbor, for the seas to calm enough for us to cross.
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