Anchor watch at Galliot Cay

It is Monday Jan. 25, 7.30 p.m. and I have taken the first anchor watch. After a some what bumpy ride we are now anchored between Big Farmers, Little and Big Galliot Cay. It is not a really official anchoring spot (no signs on the map) and the wind is still going pretty strong, so for the first time we will take watches during the night and I am the first one to look if everything is staying okay. 

Well I have a book to finish on my Kindle, have to play a game on my Nintendo (I can not seem to beat Karyn in “word search”) and a few dishes to do. To save water we first wash them with salt water and then I only need a little drinking water to rinse them of. When sometimes the drinks tastes a little weird you know that the rinsing was not done very thoroughly, but you learn to live with that, just as laying in your bed with just a small light in the middle of your forehead to read by! Everybody who wants really to think about saving energy should live for at least two months on a sail boat.

We are anchored here, because tomorrow we will make for the first time ”THE CUT,” lots of stories about the cuts, we have to get to the other side of the islands through a small opening in between the islands and because the tides are very strong here, it seems to be a rather exciting experience. We read that the wind would turn to the north-northeast and when we then wait for a low slack tide (will happen in about twelve hours), we will have the best conditions to go through. We are a little anxious about it, so we wanted to have the best conditions, the wind is not very much turning around until now, but we have still ten hours to go. And then we hope to get to Great Exuma Island tomorrow and plan to stay for about three nights in a harbor, there seems to be a new harbor and when you do not need water or electricity they have dock spaces for around 20 dollars, would not be bad.

I am going to give myself a drink, look around outside, finish my book and hope that it is then about 12 o’clock and I can go to sleep. Sleep well everybody!!

Ria