Friday, December 02, 2005

Warderick Wells Cay, Bahamas
24.23.816N
76.37.947W


We are now officially at the headquarters of the Land and Sea Park located on Warderick Wells Cay, Bahamas. We arrived about 10:30 am and took a mooring in their Northern Mooring Field. We are one of only 4 boats here so it looks like we pretty much have the run of the place.
After checking in, we took a hike along one of the trails leading to the other side of the island where we saw many of the natural cisterns on the island which provides for the brackish water the plants survive on. We returned to the boat so that I could bake bread and Dale could make water. We plan on staying here for a couple of days so that we can visit the ruins of a Loyalist Settlement built in the late 1700's; follow a trail to "the Pirate's Lair" where ships of old used to hide out waiting to plunder the merchant ships leaving Nassau; and hopefully snorkel the spectacular coral heads of Emerald Rock.

The one thing that really counts here - finally - an internet connection! Slow as molasses but at least a connection.