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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Catching up!

George Town was a fun little community of people and we enjoyed the time we where there. George Town is know for its abilitly so suck boats in! Lots of cruisers go there with hopes of sailing further south and never leave (why it is also called Chicken Town!). We also found lots of cruisers who do not want to leave. They have made a nice little community there and they like it! They have scheduled volleyball everyday at 2:00pm, yoga and arts and crafts in the mornings. Since Dave or I had no desire to play volleyball or do yoga we had no trouble leaving after 2 nights at anchor there!
Some beach time in George Town!
We left George Town and headed to Fisherman Cay. Nothing exciting here. We just stopped for the night to rest. The next day we hit Norman Cay. Now this was a big stop on Dave's list. The man who used to own this island -  Carlos Lehder was very well know drug Lord. Dave had a chance to be involved with his trial back in the early 90's and wanted to see the island that ran the Drug world back then!
Just a long forgotten dirt road on Norman Cay. Lots evidence that this used to be one busy place! Lehder's old house and several trailers for his employees and that famous runway that had the entry covered by tree limbs to make a tunnel for the planes to land through.
In the Norman Cay bay there is a sunken airplane. Dave went down and snorkeled around the plane. I have the very import job of making sure the dinghy did not drift away! As Dave snorkeled he grabbed five conch for dinner and I had a Lemodka (Crystal Light Lemonade and Vodka - Yummy!) and layed on the soft pontoon of our dinghy - I took my job very seriously!!




De Plane
We left Norman Cay and headed for Nassau. The big city!! The capitol of The Bahamas! This Islands houses 60% of the population. All the supplies that the smaller islands receive come from here. Even the Bohemin babies come from here! When a woman on a small island that offers no medical care gets pregnant they fly over to Nassau to give birth. (wow really!) We arrived here yesterday April 19th. We put Cat's Eye in a marina for the first time since we took off from Frenchtown Marina (where I worked and we called home in St.Thomas - Miss you guys!! xoxo). Cat's Eye is getting a well deserved bath and Dave is STILL scrubbing the mud off the anchor chain from Luperon, DR. We are going to go check out the Hard Rock Cafe and Starbucks soon. We are taking off first thing in the morning. We have 3 more stops then we will arrive in AMERICA!! Wheeee!! Target here I come!! When you have been forced to only shop in a K-Mart for 8 or 9 years you would understand my excitment! The first stop is West Palm Beach Florida! The second half to our cruising adventure!

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