Little Ragged Cut, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 I heard an aircraft engine roaring over at the Duncan Town airport and stuck my head out to see.....this guy was having a bit of fun with a low-level takeoff.....

 

 Mid-day I got a hankering for some cinnamon rolls.

 

About as easy as it comes. 

 

 Left to rise a bit.....

And fresh out of the oven!

Donna and Jerry invited us over in the afternoon for some games.  We played a round of 5 Crowns and a round of Hearts.  Good fun and good company!!  

 

Little Ragged Cut, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 We set out before 8AM to head down to the south end of Ragged Island.

Fun little sail with just the mail sail up....

 In the afternoon, we went for another ocean side walk.  

Lovely as always and some good exercise.

And when we returned to the boat, the loaf of bread was hot and ready in the breadmaker!

Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

We went out for a snorkel just because it’s been a few days…unfortunately the conditions were not great. Beautiful day though!

 

We ended up buzzing up about 4 miles to Margaret Cay where we knew there is a couple of protected coral heads. 

 

Had a nice little snorkel but the dinghy motor would not start when we got back on board!!  We really shouldn’t have gone that far without a buddy boat!!  I did have the VHF radio so we could have begged another boat to come rescue us. But that would have been an ugly rescue, having to tow a disabled dinghy 4 miles!  Duane took a spark plug out to troubleshoot, somehow that fixed it and we were on our way, not stopping until we were back at Sojourn.  Still don’t know what was wrong.  It has cranked successfully several times since…

We went ashore for sundown- still a nice small group.  We all said our farewells since most everyone will be heading to a different anchorage.

Today is our son Robert’s 37th birthday…wow, how could that be?  Seems like yesterday…..

I’m including a bunch of photos of Robert from 1989 for the pleasure of our sweet relatives….oh, what a difference a few years makes❤️  

 

 

Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 The day started out grey and rainy….  

 

 But, as common, the skies eventually cleared.  We made a loaf of bread and washed 2 loads of clothes.....

After lunch we went in for a walk. Over the hill on the "Bernie" trail.

Beautiful ocean side views.....the waves were a bit angry with fairly strong east winds.

At one point we could have taken a fairly short trail back to the other side of the cay....but I opted for the longer route following the rocky shoreline all the way to the end of Hog Cay.....I had forgotten how long this trek is!  

Beautiful but I was tuckered an hour or so later!

In the distance on the trail we saw Jerry!  We walked the rest of the way back to the cruiser hut with him.

 

Back to the cruiser hut.....we decided to shower and relax for the evening rather than go in for sundowners.

 

Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

With a blustery day in store, we opted for a nice long walk instead of snorkeling.

 

Up on the cliff, the view back to the anchorage.

 
 

 Beautiful views from the trail.

 

 

 

 

 

When we cut this trail 3 or 4 years ago, we marked it with pieces of green fishing netting that we had scavenged from the shoreline.  A concerned cruiser has removed all of those markings and replaced them with conch shells.  It's actually quite nice.

The "Conch" trail intersects with the "Creepy Baby Doll" trail....there are some remnants of the dolls, but most have been blown away by the recent hurricane, I suppose.  We spent a good bit of time trimming the overgrowth on this trail - it needs some more attention though.

We did a nice long circuit of the northern end of Hog Cay.  I put my phone in my backpack because we had several rain showers crop up....no photos of the ocean side today.

Several boats have come/gone at Hog Cay over the last few days.  There are two boats now with small children.  One from Canada with one little girl and one from Israel with 3 children!!  The kids are well behaved and cheerful

A nice sunset gathering but no real visible sunset or green flash.