Little Ragged Island, Bahamas

 Another busy day!!

Armed with machetes and hand saws, we along with several other cruisers set out on the dinghies to clear/trim the path across the island to the south.

We got right to work - the path is a little over a half mile.

 

 

Michelle and Clark from Roam.

 

Ed from What If and Clark.  I know, lots of photos of laboring backs!

 

Michele from Reach and Jeff from Meriwether.

 

Michelle hard at work.

 

Dee from Messhuga.

 

Cathy from What If.

Jeff and Jeanna from Meriwether.

 

And Duane with his machete.

 

A view of a cleared path.

 

Clark, Dee and Ed.  

 

And finally we had worked our way to the ocean side of the island about 2 hours later!  Jeff and Jeanna collecting some debris from the surf to use as trail markers on the way back.

 

The trail is marked on the ocean side with a Minnie Mouse toy tied on twin palm trees.

 

View from the trail.

 

The trail head from the ocean side.

 

We walked back to the dinghies on the trimmed trail, so nice not to have to fight all the bushes!  The tide had gone out so our dinghy was aground in the flat shallow cove.  No worries, Ed and Dee helped us pull it to deeper water.

 

Dee rode back to the anchorage with us.

 

I made some cheesecake for the evening cookout (I melted chocolate chips and poured over the squares for added fun).

 

We went to shore early to set up a new fire pit...Dee noticed this snake crawling on our chair!! I think this may be the first snake we've seen in the Bahamas.  We looked it up and believe it is probably a Bimini boa.

 

Duane gently put him on a stick and took him out into the bushes....he reappeared about a half hour later, much to Jeanna's shock when he climbed on her chair.  One more lift out into the bushes at sunset and the snake stayed away (although we kept a lookout so there were no more snaky surprises!)

 

The anchorage crew has grown a bit.  All folks that have been in the Raggeds for a couple of weeks so have no Covid exposure.

 

 

A pretty sunset with Roam leaving at high tide.  We'll see them again probably in Hog Cay or elsewhere if we ever decide to move.

 

 

The cookout was great, as usual.   Wonderful food and fun chatting.