We heard 4 gunshots during the night coming from the south beach area. They woke David up. Everything was quiet afterward with no lights or signs of disturbance on the beach. This happened around 340 in the morning.
In the morning, we took the dinghy for a short explore down toward Mutton Point. We did see a turtle swimming. We ran out of time for snorkeling but saw some good views of Lenny’s place. There were no signs of anything out of the ordinary and our beach remained quiet except for a few dog walkers.
Around 930, we departed to go to Egg Island at the tip of Eleuthra. We timed our departure to coincide with passage through current cut at slack tide. We were nervous about the cut but with the calm winds and slack tide it was easy. We radioed before we went through to notify any boats on the other side of our crossing.
After passing through the cut, we made our way to the anchorage and anchored in soft sand. We decided to go explore and took the dinghy up a creek into a lagoon. We saw a large nurse shark along the shore. The tide was just coming in so we had to walk the dinghy over some spots. We spotted some turtles in the lagoon and some conch.
We then went to the beach where we met a nice couple from s/v Allegra. She was a very experienced sailor and he was learning. She has sailed around the world twice and has done some long passages and deliveries of boats. It was interesting to talk with them.
We returned to our boat in order to have a dinner with Jeff and Deb. We had bought some lobster tails from a man selling them at the Glass Window bridge. He suggested we remove them from the shell and saute them with butter and spices. We tried to slice them into equal pieces and cooked them as he suggested. We ate them with rice. It was delicious.
Egg Island is a good place to stage to make the passage to the Abacos which is what we hope to do tomorrow. It will be about a 9 hour trip. Our goal is to leave as soon as we can see, around 6 am. Throughout the day and evening about 20 boats came in to the anchorage. We will all likely be leaving in the morning.