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| Borrowed from: marinas.com |
The Wednesday after Mother’s Day showed up on the weather
websites as our last day of decent wind for at least a week, so we reluctantly
left the Island School area to get to our next port of call: Highbourne Cay
at the northern part of the Exumas.
We left at the break of dawn and experienced what I see as our most
perfect sailing day to date! The winds
were blowing steady at a speed that was high enough to get us where we were
heading, but low enough to stay safe (for you sailor-types, we had a good beam
reach of 12-16 knot wind all day coming from our port side) and coming from the
perfect direction to push us oh-so-gently to our northwestern destination (if
only every day could be so easy!). As we
were making yet another sizable jump (32 miles) to enter into an unknown area
with sharp rock edges and coral heads around, we were happy to make the journey
quickly enough to have us drinking a glass of wine with the anchor down and the
sails stowed by 5:00 in the evening!
