Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 We had invited Meshugga over for dinner - so I got busy in the morning doing some prep work.  I'm making a curry for dinner, so lots of slicing veggies to make it easier to throw it all together in the late afternoon.  For a little extra side dish I made some naan bread.

 

It turned out very nicely.

And I made a chocolate/nut coffee cake for dessert.  This will be served with a melted chocolate bar syrup.  I didn't photo the curry but it looked like any curry....

 But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself....in the late morning after I had most everything under control for dinner, we went out for a snorkel since it was relatively calm weather.  We went to the cut between Hog Cay and Ragged Island.

Was beautiful.

The only catch of the day.   Duane chased a nice hogfish for a while be after a few missed shots gave up when the fish swam away....

Jerry and Karen from Persephone and Jerry from Bluejacket were on a different reef in the area - they stopped by for a nice chat and had a bucket full of fish/lobsters.

Back to the boat - got a call on the VHF that Sam & Cindy from Bookend were going to take their E-foil boards in a give some lessons.  So nice of them!  

Unfortunately, a lot of our photos had water spots on the lens (really hard to see in the bright sun so we didn't know until we got back to the boat).

But riding the board was a hoot!!  This is me getting on the board for the first time....unfortunately, this is what a lot of the photos looked like...

 Duane getting instruction from Sam.  The handheld device is how your control the speed of the board.

But the difficult thing is getting your balance to kneel or stand on the board.

Here's Jerry from Bluejacket doing a good job balancing.

 

 

Of course, my camera takes terrible long-distance shots and a lot of the shots are into the glare of the sun.  

You'll have to believe me - this is Duane up on foil on his knees.

And this is Duane moments later as he face-plants it into the water!  No worries, it's easy to get back on the board and try again!

 

Fun watching everyone try it - here is Lou from 360 almost standing up but in a few seconds will be in the water!

The "young folk" from Wabi Sabi (Ryan and Ali) of course were pros in no time (no photos of them as they were always out too far for my camera).

Sam coaching Duane a bit as he got started.

Sam was so patient with all of us.

And Sam gliding in so gracefully - both Sam and Cindy make it look easy.  (But they have plenty of practice!)

Back to the boat to get cleaned up and ready for guests.

 

Had a wonderful evening with Dee and Nicholas from Messugga....

 

Not a spectacular sunset....but I guess we can't have one every day!

We had a lovely evening, ending with a card game and much conversation.  Wheww, I was a tired puppy by bedtime!