Little Ragged Cut, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

We went for a nice long walk north on the coast of Ragged Island.  Beautiful views as always - and no bugs!!

Lots of sargassum weed and plastic trash unfortunately.

Always fun to come upon interesting flotsam.  This fender is a long way from home!  I looked it up F/V Papa's Pride in Jonesport, Maine!

Papa's Pride is the boat in the foreground and has a Maine fishing permit.

Walking further we see that the huge marker buoy has been washed inland to a different location.

And a different huge steel buoy is in it's place.  Note Duane standing beside it for scale!

We walked about a mile north before heading back.

I picked up a prescription bottle - still sealed and the pills rattled inside.  No markings on the outside though.

I searched the internet for "pink pill 20 R" and find that these are just simple statin drugs for high cholesterol.  Was hoping for something exotic, haha.  Into the trash of course.

I got a kick out of finding all these "pigs"....we've seen some on the shore this year.  But it was amazing how many on this shoreline.  The only reason I can think of it that a container must have gotten loose from a cargo ship and dumped a bunch of them in the ocean....

And a little different "style"....

 

With some approaching west winds over the next few days....the "cut" is now home to 8 catamarans....not sure why, but zero mono-hulls this year.

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Little Ragged Cut, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

Just after sunrise there was a little shower in the anchorage.  A pretty little rainbow appeared so I climbed up on top to get a better vantage point for a photo. 

 

 

 

 

 The rainbow was a bit too wide for my camera....

 

After breakfast, Jerry told us he was going to go ashore and do some fire pit maintenance.  So we joined him. 

The need for maintenance was due to Hurricane Michele earlier in the year.  The strong west waves had battered the existing fire pits.  The "trash" fire pit was basically gone and earlier cruisers had fashioned a new fire pit for trash - which as all well and good but they put it "upwind" of the cruiser hut.   

 

 First chore was to move the new "trash" fire pit so that it would be downwind of the cruiser hut in the prevailing easterly winds.

 

The start of the new "trash" fire pit (used to burn trash, not cooking!)

 

 

 The crews from New Ambition and Lani joined us - many hands make light work!

Ted and Kim from Lani...

Moving sand, trying to smooth out the exposed rocky terrain.

Jerry and Duane cleaning out the filled-in "cooking" fire pit.

Much nicer and more useful!

 

 

Taking a break after setting the cross-ties up on rocks to make a better bench.

 

Looking pretty functional now!

New "trash" fire pit looking good as well!

 

Back to the boat - we decided it was time for a change in scenery - off to the cut between the Raggeds.   When we were in Duncan Town yesterday, Myron told us that the mosquito plague had disappeared - so we're hoping we will be mostly bug free in the cut now.  There are some strong westerly winds coming up in the next week so we need to be protected anyway so good timing to change anchorages.

Beautiful water as we motor along. 

Jerry and Donna arrive an hour later.  This will be home for a week or two now.

Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 I got a text from the Captain C mailboat that they would be offloading at 8AM....it was a bouncy ride over to the government dock - exposed to the ocean swell and the east winds.  Louie and Deb had an order to pick up as well and you can see them behind us on their dinghy.

Inside the protected dock, all was calm.  The Captain C and the Bahamas Defense Force boat.

The Captain C is looking particularly good - they had a massive fire more than a year ago and the boat is just now in service after a major refit.  

The crew unloaded the refrigerator and freezer boxes for us almost right away.  

Cephas (one of the brothers who own the boat) chatting with Louie and Deb.

Dry goods are all shrink wrapped together - loading onto Phichol's truck for transport to town for sorting.

We decided to divide-and-conquer....Louie and Deb took all the cold boxes back to Hog while we took our dinghy over to the town dock to retrieve the dry goods.

Low tide so we were a bit careful....

Pleased to report no mosquitoes ashore - they had been swarming and terrible last week!

The Bahamas Defense Force soldiers transferring fuel from one tank to another.

 

First load of dry goods being unloaded and sorted for each family that had ordered.  As this is almost a weekly event - it goes off like a well oiled machine!

Our box ended up being on the second load, so we had a good bit of time to mill around.  Chatted most of the time with the crew from Vineto - Doug and Caroline.  Fun folks.

Myron  A.K.A "bird man" came to retrieve his shipment.  Good to chat with him and catch up a bit!

I forgot to get a photo of my "haul"....but nice to see the fridge packed with fresh stuff again!

Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 We seem to have a bit of a rainy/showery weather pattern going on lately.  Not really enough rain to hamper activities…

Before lunch we went ashore to burn a bag of trash and do a little sand shoveling.  Jerry was there with his cordless saw cutting up some driftwood.   We’ll have a bonfire at some point I’m sure.

Some boat chores in the afternoon, then back ashore for sundown.  

Full house at the cruiser hut.  

Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 Just another normal day....some yummy bread....that end slice that we share while still hot is just heavenly!

A few more boats have made it to Hog Cay. Starting to look a little more "normal" for the season.  I think there are about 11 boats here now.

Time to wash some clothes....perfect breeze for quick drying.

Louie and Deb had been out fishing and got "too many" so shared their catch.  A nice margate.

And another hog fish.  We went ashore to clean them but took the scraps out about 1/2 mile offshore to dump.  This reduces the shark attention to the anchorage!

We went in for a crowded sundown at the cruiser hut.  Several new boats plus Michele and Darcy from New Ambition.  As usual when there is a crowd, there were 5 different conversations going at once....

We were treated to a nice little green flash at sundown.