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The weather is still kind of wonky, but the threat of a tropical low no longer hangs over us, so we decided to take our chances and start heading up the Exumas with our guests, Steve and Sue. Naturally, as soon as we'd made the decision it began to rain. But we used the wind from the squall to sail up to Rat Cay, where we are anchored all by our lonesome.

Steve and Sue are model boat guests. Their luggage consists of snorkeling gear, one or two bits of clothing, and a whole bunch of goodies for us. Some of what they brought us were our special requests - honey, epoxy, our mail - but they also kindly toted along a couple gallons of beer and wine and more cocktail snacks than I think we can manage to eat in the rest of our trip.

The one thing we're missing at the moment is fish. We ate the last of our last mahi in George Town; we hooked a mackerel today but watched a barracuda swim up and bite off all but the head as Steve reeled it in. (Which was kind of cool, actually. But it would have been nice to have the fish!) But we remember this spot as a nice snorkeling bay, so we will dust off the pole spears tomorrow and with luck, we'll have fish for dinner.
- posted by S/V Windom @ 5/19/2007 [link]