Great Harbour Cay

We rented another golf cart to take a tour of the shelling beach.  The cart was a piece of work and we were surprised when it didn't fall apart.  I was always wondering if I was going to have to get off just to make it up a hill!  

The roads are narrow and you drive on the left side of the road.

I loved the pink houses along the way!

These houses have the ocean right in their front "lawns"!

Here is the shelling beach.  We fortunately caught it at low tide.  We could walk out very far before getting to the water.  So fun!  It's so amazing to find all kinds of life everywhere we walked!

A Coral Fan

Tracks under the water where a sea creature walked.

A live sand dollar under the sand.  I thought it so neat to see his track where he moved!

Ed dug up 2 live Sand Dollars from under the sand - waiting for the water to return!

One that got bleached in the sun.  We took back quite a few of these!  It was so cool to walk around and see dozens of live ones in the sand.  It was difficult to walk around without stepping on them!  I have never experienced this before!

Interesting ball of sand under the water!  A sea creature buried beneath this structure.

Couldn't tell if this was a home for a sea creature or a type of underwater plant.

Another sea creature home.

Plant life

A live Sea Cucumber!

A live starfish!

A live starfish under the sand!

A live whelk - I thought it was a shell I could bring home - not!

Another live one - scallop? clam?

We saw several of these all over the sand.  Ed dug into one and discovered a very strange, yet interesting, looking creature!  Does anyone know what this is?  I have been trying to Google search it but I am having no luck!

Sorry for the lack of focus, but I thought it so cool to see the effects of the waves on the sand!

A sharp contrast in wave action.

Here's Ed searching for more shells - the tide is starting to come in.  By the time we left, most of the sand that we were walking on was under water.

Berry Island - Harbour Cay Inlet

This is the entrance way to get to the marina.  Everywhere we go there is so much beauty even around the everyday mundane things of a town!

This may be a cave.  No plans of exploring!

The Power Plant

Fuel Dock

Our friend, Pete, gave us this bottle of Port to celebrate our arrival in the Bahamas.  We almost forgot!  So we celebrated - cheers to the Bahamas!

To the Banks of the Bahamas

We left around 7 am from Bimini.  Our goal was to spend the night in the banks of the Bahamas which was about the half way point to our destination of Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands.

A beautiful sunrise to start our next voyage.

Our Anchoring Spot on the Banks

Captain getting things ready

Bill checking out the wind and weather.

After a rocky sleep, we set off to Great Harbour Cay in the Berrys.  After many miles with nothing but water all around, I got an inkling how the first explorers felt when at last they could see land.   On the horizon - land ho!!!  There's Great Harbour!

Last Day in Bimini

This is the last day of our stay in Bimini.  We were here a couple of days longer than planned due to a storm.  Spent the day preparing for the trip and seeing our friends who were also leaving for their own routes.

Adding fuel to the tan, one jug at a time. 

This is Spence who was across from us on the same pier.  He and his friend were on the friend's Dad's boat.  They did a lot of fishing and ended up with more Wahoo than they could eat.  Spence gave us a bag full of Wahoo which we thoroughly enjoyed eating!

This was CJ's which was a small place to eat right off the beach.

There was no free potable water on the island so we'd buy it from this place which was next to our marina.  $1.00 a gallon and it was very refreshing. 

We spent the evening visiting with our friends from Oleta River State Park (the Oleta Gang)!

Vic from Whisper and Louise from Salacia

Marilyn from Whisper

Jim from Salacia

Captain Ed

Very tired Admiral Joan

Very good friend, Bill

Spence's friend had a light under his boat which attracted fish.  We spent about an hour just watching the fish swim under his boat, our boat and under the dock.  Amazing what we saw!  There was a huge hermit crab that had a conch shell as his home.  Lots of squid, other small fish, a barracuda, a very large ray with only half a tail and a very huge shark!  It was better than TV!

Cuttle Fish

a Ray

A very large Bull Shark (that's our boat rudder on the left!)