10 February 2004

News No 4:

Hi Guys

Left the Old Bahama Yacht club this morning for the Abacos, we awoke to a beautiful day with the sun peeping over the horizon and a flat calm sea, so we cast off and headed out in 1,4m of sea on a heading to mangrove Cay, which is about 20nm, and then in 4,1m of water are making way to Great Sale Cay where we'll spend the Night. The flat turquoise water is beautiful, and we've had a few dolphins for company, there are two yachts following us along this highway in the sea about 2miles behind, but other than that its 360 deg of sky and sea all turquoise, still and beautiful.

We've just had lunch of left over braai from last night with salads and cheeses yummy!

We took out the marina bikes yesterday and cycled into West End village a few buildings houses and wooden cottages, not much to see, we had dinner the night before last at Anne's Place, and sampled the local fare,it was delicious.

Suzie and I are lying on the deck sipping rum runners, tanning and reading, the boys are at the helm, on auto pilot, our course plotted in the autopilot, so its doing all the work and they're simply chatting, reading, planning and keeping a watch. This is really relaxing!!!!!