Pictures of boat at anchorage, osprey nest, beach at White Point, Boat anchored off beach at White Point, Bill’s fish, Rainbow and rough ocean on the other side Black Point.



On Sunday, we continued to head north and stopped at Isaac Bay. We anchored by “snugging” up to the shore and dinghied ashore to explore the island. We counted three inhabitants here -- two rather large spiders (snuggly attached to their webs, thank goodness) and an osprey. Under the watchful eye of the osprey who was perched high above us on a tall decaying palm tree trunk, we walked the shore.

The next day, we sailed just around the corner to White Point. The shore was a little rocky in spots but we managed to find a place to land the dinghy so that we could go ashore. We walked the rather long beach and enjoyed the scenery. It was a peaceful walk until we noticed a helicopter flying over the island several times. It got rather close to beach at times. We were speculating that it could be someone looking at the island as a place to develop the property. We were hoping that this was not the case, as it is such an unspoiled area. It would be nice to leave things just as they are.

We discovered a large osprey nest perched high on a rock.. We were able to get close enough to see the intricacy of the weaving holding the combination of sticks and old fishing net together. It looked as though the nest was abandoned. I was wondering if the osprey that we saw yesterday may have once made its home there.

Bill has continued to try his hand at spear fishing. This time he was able to catch three small snappers. He saw some lobsters but it’s past the season. We’ll get ‘em next year! Overnight, we had a few light rain showers. We were surprised to look out over the ocean from our cockpit and see a beautiful rainbow early in the morning.

Yesterday, (Tuesday) we have stopped at Black Point. This is a small town that we visited a few weeks ago. Our “to-do” list was short. We hopped to get a few things at the store, do our laundry, and get a little water for our tanks. By 5 PM and the only thing that that we had scratched off of the list was the laundry! The store did not have any of the four items that we needed. If you could compare the grocery stores on these small islands to our 7-11 stores at home, our 7-11 would be like a well stocked grocery store! The prices here would be comparable to Neiman Marcus!!! Thank goodness we provisioned wisely and have most of the things that we need!

We were hoping that the pump on the city water spigot will soon be fixed. They said that it would be fixed by 11 this morning but by nightfall it was still just a drip! I guess we are still not used to this “Island Time, Mon”! Luckily, we have enough water to see us through for several days, but we’d like to just top our tanks off.
While checking email at Lorraine’s Café, Elaine struck up a conversation with a fellow cruiser. He showed her some pictures of a five and a half foot bull shark that he had caught from his boat in the anchorage just yesterday evening. I guess Bill won’t be taking his daily bath off of the back of our boat! Elaine will gladly share her shower water with him!!!

At high tide, we decided to take a walk through town and visit the “ocean side “ of the island. Since it was so windy and rough, the blow hole was quite a sight. Several times we watched it spew water and seaweed up into the air.! It was quite a sight to see!

We need to wait here at Black Point for a day to see if the water pump ashore gets fixed and perhaps for a little better weather. It’s blowing 25 out right now, which isn’t bad, except for dinghy ride to the dock, which can involve a good splash or two. We’l lhead to Big Major next, then up to Shroud and Hawksbill Cays.