Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

The Hog Cay Valentine's party was a huge hit as always.  Fun getting together with all the cruisers and local residents.  Wonder Bahamian meal served by the local ladies.  Enormous effort on their part to cook and haul all that food and beverage over from Duncan Town on their personal small boats!  

The photos have uploaded in random order so you can just scroll thru them with that in mind.  I'm not going to figure out the correct order....

A great day! 

 

Local and cruiser kids instantly have fun together. 

 

Darcy was auctioneer- he did a great job.  The group raised over $1600 for the town.

 

Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 Time to get the cruiser hut ready for the Valentines party....lots of cruisers came ashore to join in.  

Starting out, we pulled out one of the attached shades. 

 

 And got busy supporting it with poles and lines.  Anchors for the lines buried in the sand.

 

 

 One shade in place....

 

Moving on to the next one -the large shade fabric roll had to be taken down from the rafters where it is stored every year.

 

 The interior of the hut was cleaned out and the food-serving table moved into place for tomorrow's feast.

 

 

Then it's just a matter of attaching the shade to the hut on one end and supporting it mid-air!

 

 

 

 

A few tree limbs needed to be trimmed. 

 

 Lots more support lines installed.

 

Moving the tables under the shade.

 

Mostly done....

 

Relaxing after the chores are finished.

Looking nice.

Back to the boat for lunch and some relaxing....later in the evening we went back ashore.  Lots of folks, new and old.
 

 

 

 

 

 The teens put up the volleyball net and had a good time.

 

Back to the boat for sunset - a small green flash.  Party tomorrow!

Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 We started the day over at the hut, just getting things a little more situated for the party....

John and Sandy volunteered to bring over some long bamboo poles to replace the ones that got washed away in the hurricane.  These will be used to support the huge black net sunshade.

Otherwise, just a bunch of various chores - cruisers came over to the hut all morning to chip in.  Ron and Dee from Ursa Minor.

Bob from Two of a Kind cleaning up some trash with Duane.

Jerry spent a long time out in the sun cutting up all the driftwood we'd pulled over and piled up.  This will be used to keep the cook fire hot!

 

Diane from Two of a Kind and Rick from C Language moving some more sand.

 

After lunch, we took advantage of the calmer weather to go snorkeling.

 

On the way back to the boat over the sandbar we could see a shark - Duane took the dinghy near it for a quick photo.

 

The sunset was lovely with a small green flash at the end.

 

I still haven't figured out my camera settings for night photography....Ron made a UHF announcement that we could go out an see the SpaceX rocket launch...it was fun to watch, crystal clear to my eyes but the photo is worthless!