With a beautiful sunrise on a calm morning in Little Harbor, we now contemplate our return to the "Big Shopping Mall to the West" (a local reference heard on the daily Cruisers Net, CH68)
We have worked our way down to the end of the Abacos Island chain. May sound like a long way, but you could probably do the whole chain in a day! Our daily travels involve an hour or so, a long day has been like yesterday, 2 hours!
We are now studying the weather and resultant waves on the Gulf Stream to consider our crossing back to Florida. It's looking like a docile week as far as the winds go so that bodes for a good crossing probably Monday or Tuesday. The concept is to allow the Gulf Stream waves to calm down after any northerly wind component which tends to create havoc with the northbound Gulf Stream. Calm southerlies are good.
This has been an eye-opening trip in some respects. A different slice of life is found here in the Abacos and the many other Island chains to the south now beckon....maybe we'll be back next winter?? If not, probably sooner than later, we hope.
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