Cumberland Island has been on the list of places I wanted to visit. It is a large, mostly protected, barrier island once owned by the Carnegie family. It is only accessible by boat and there is a ferry from St. Mary’s. There are several anchorages off the island with dinghy access. We motored there in
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We started chores early. We lowered Fat Tuesday, went to the marina with garbage, did laundry, showered and ordered a grocery delivery by insta-cart. By 1130 we had this all done. We took everything back to the boat, ate lunch and set out on a walk to the alligator farm. We crossed the Bridge of
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We decided to ferry to Hope Town for the day. I had called several small motor boat rental places but the one in Marsh Harbour did not rent for the day and the others on nearby cays did not answer inquiries. It seemed like the ferry was the best option. We wanted to visit Man-O-War
March 18 – 20, 2026 (Wednesday-Friday) We had gone to Cape Eleuthera to avoid bad weather, only some of which behaved as predicted. The first part of the weather pattern was supposed to be very strong and unpredictable squalls with thunderstorms and strong winds in the squalls from potentially any direction. This was frightening from
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Some other boaters were interested in joining our tour. Laura from S/V Aurora, a Pacific Seacraft and Teri from Captain Kidd, a small motor cat, were interested in coming with us. We found enough bikes to ride over. It was a short trip without the meanderings of yesterday. Mitzi was our tour guide and took
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We had some more exploration of the marina grounds and were particularly interested in a school and research facility on the northern end of the property. We wanted to check it out and see if we could schedule a tour. It was not far by the road but we passed several lagoons on the way
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We had some extra time so we decided to go a little further north and then come back to watch the Junkanoo. We thought about the native plant reserve but once we got there, we would not have much time as it would be closing at 4. We had an interest in seeing Hatchet Bay
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Happy Birthday Jer. I’m thinking of you on this beautiful morning. We got up early to head to O’Brien’s.Cay, home of two snorkel spots, The Aquariam, and a plane wreck site. Slack tide was around 9 and we wanted to leave around this time and come back at the next slack. To get there, we
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Today, we decided to make the move to Cambridge Cay, part of the Exuma Land and Sea Park. The main island is called Little Bell’s Cay. This was not very far from Big Major, a little northward in the chain. It is near a nice big cut , Conch Cut, in case we want to
We went to town to provision and get water and fuel. We found the bakery today. We had seen the spot yesterday but because it was closed, it was not obviously the bakery. It is a shelter where the bakery moves in and sets up. We got a small banana blueberry bread. We went to