We are at a favorite anchorage, in north Lake Worth just off Old Port Cove marina (map). I had originally planned to anchor off Prosperity Farms, a bit quieter location, but we needed to pump out when we left Soverel Harbour, and Old Port Cove has a high-speed pumpout available for just $5. Our view consists of expensive housing units, and Tiger Woods' 155' yacht, with the unintentionally ironic name Privacy, which is for sale for a cool $25M.
One of our final sunsets at Soverel Harbour.
It's a ten-minute dinghy ride from here over to Blossom at the North Palm Beach marina, and we've been tendering over there to join up for dinner and some last-minute grocery shopping. Today we had to dinghy over to the landing under the Jack Nicklaus Boulevard bridge, for a final stop at Publix for more cat food, and the ATM at the CVS next door to replace some cash I unexpectedly had to shell out here pre-departure. Cash is much harder to get once we're in the islands.
The haul from the penultimate provisioning run, consisting mostly of fresh produce.
I also managed to find a straw hat at, of all places, Publix; I've been looking for one for the past month to keep the sun off my ears in the islands. The boat is now hexagonally close-packed with provisions and supplies, so even though we stood there for ten minutes, surrounded by the excess of a typical American grocery store, we could not think of a single other thing we could use in the next three months to fit aboard. We're as ready as we can be.
A bilge full of beer.
That's good, because our weather window has opened, for just a single day: tomorrow. In a few minutes we will deck the tender and chug down the ICW to somewhere near the inlet, to save a bit of time in the morning. If all goes well we will weigh anchor in the pre-dawn hours and be on our way to the Little Bahama Bank, where we plan to anchor off the White Sands shoal as our first stop outside the US.
Once we are five to ten miles offshore, our cell phones will stop working until we return to the US, probably sometime in May. Email will be the best way to reach us while we are away, but I expect we will only be able to access it every week or two for a short while.
I posted here a few days ago about how to follow us once we leave US waters, and I'll try to remember to kick it off by posting our location tonight via Spot.
Have a wonderful island adventure!!
ReplyDeleteYes, enjoy the Bahamas! Try Kalik Beer. Sounds like "click". You may leave your beer in storage.
ReplyDeleteWhen we order a beer ashore, it's a Kalik. But beer here, even the local brew, is so expensive ($16 for a six-pack), we'll be consuming the stock we brought, at least while it lasts.
DeleteThings have changed. When we were there not that many years ago beer was about $5 a bottle at the My Lucaya Resort but in the grocery store across the street, Kalik was $1 US a bottle.
DeleteEnjoy the Bahamas! I'll miss reading your regular posts. I'm following on Twitter.
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