Rock Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas

 We made a quick decision in the morning to move on north.  So we raised the main and headed out to deep water to fish.  The forecast was for some rain....we put a reef in the main just in case....

As we proceeded north, we started to see rain and some thunder in the distance.  At some point during the day, the winds shifted providing little power to the sail so we dropped it and just motored slowly on one engine.  We had originally thought we'd stop at Little San Salvador (or Half Moon Cay to the big ship cruisers).  But the swells were pretty large making that anchorage yucky for us.  So we decided that we'd just continue on north to Rock Sound, Eleuthera.  This would mean arriving at Rock Sound in the middle of the night.  No worries, we've got plenty of previous tracks into the wide open bay.

 

We saw several cruise ships.  This one the Disney Fantasy.  They apparently anchor offshore and take their customers ashore to the southern tip of Eleuthera - they call it the Princess Cays.  Passing that area, we had two ships fairly close.

 

This one was a Carnival ship.

And we did finally catch a small skipjack tuna.  We apparently passed over a school as we had one on each of our reels at the same time.  Duane got his aboard.  Mine dived deep and then the line went slack as the smart fish got off the line!

 We arrived into Rock Sound around 1:30AM - just dropped the anchor at the first reasonable spot.  We will move the boat to a better spot later!