Ft. Pierce, Harbour Town Marina, USA

We left Green Turtle Yacht Club as planned about 6am and saw a beautiful sunrise.

 We then headed to Great Sale Cay  arriving about 6pm on Wednesday 5/8.  We were happy to see the large yacht in the Black Sound channel was gone. They ran aground out of the channel at low tide and needed to wait several hours to float again. We had a great night at Great Sale prior to our crossing. The seas were fairly calm and winds light for our trip off the banks into the deep water and through the gulf stream. We motor sailed a lot and we had plenty of fuel, so no worries! We beat the heat with sun showers. We made our own sea salt with the occasional spray over the boat, which felt good, but we did get salt encrusted.

Tom checked into the waterway net on his ham radio every day. It was great being able to get the local weather every morning.

 We were treated to a dolphin show on the banks just before entering the deep water of the Atlantic Ocean.

We saw some amazing cloud formations and cloud to cloud lightening in the gulf stream.

When Tom was sun stroke or very tired he let Kathy be Captain...he even photograph the moment haha!

The night watches were very cool with flying fish, bright stars and lots of plankton that lit up the water. We entertained ourselves by taking pics of ourselves and everything else!

 We arrived safely in the USA at Ft. Pierce Harbourtown Marina at about 8am 5/10.

We napped , went swimming, napped, ate dinner with friends Carl & Joyce, showered and called it a night. Today we are almost back to normal and will head on to Vero Beach as we head north towards home.

Green Turtle Cay

After spending a few nights at Treasure Cay we went through Whale Cay Passage. It was a great passage even though the surf was breaking on land. We anchored out of Black Sound until the tide was rising then instead of getting a mooring we stayed at Leeward Yacht Club for a week. We met up with our new friends, Dennis & Claire, from Cinnamon Girl and had a great week. Several other boats we have met in our travels were also there which made it nice to get together before we all departed to head to the states. Everyone's departure was different and we head out at "zero dark thirty" tomorrow. "Truancy" saw us leave Treasure Cay very early and he is the one who coined our departure times! While in Green Turtle we experienced a Waterspout/tornado that came very close to the marina we were at and turned at the last minute. Tom said hurry up get below, but get the camera! Lol! We also toured more of the settlement and went to the Island Heritage Festival both days. The second day they had a Junkanoo which we had never seen and was a lot of fun. They had Bahamian Island music and local food which we liked sampling. The weather has been perfect and we have all spent a lot of time at the pool. It will be hard to leave this mon!