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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Rum Cay to Georgetown Bahamas

We left Long Island and headed for Rum Cay. All the books, charts and message boards all talk about this lil island bar called Kaye's Bar. Since Dave and I are not known to pass up a good bar (this one had great reviews!) after we set the anchor we headed in to explore. We found Kaye's Bar with no problem (the loud island music bamming from the lil sandy bar was a dead give away) We settled in with a couple of Kaliks (local beer) and meet some of the locals. The owner of the sand floor bar is a sweet generous lady named Deloris. We spent the afternoon with 7 out of the 62 people that live on the island drinking beer and listening to music. After telling the locals about Dave's really bad fishing skills the local fisherman Dee Dee (this is a nickname that my family has called my sister since she was a baby - it made me giggle to think the very white city girl and this very black rasta island man shared the same name!) offered to take Dave out fishing the following morning and teach him some fishing skills - I also think he felt bad for Dave that he could not provide food for the boat! Not that we did not have food but we definitely did not have ANY fresh fish! The next morning first thing (11:00am) Dee Dee came out to the boat and picked up Dave. They went off in a lil dinghy fishing for grouper.

Dee Dee's fishing boat!
 So off the they go! And for the first time in awhile I had the whole boat to myself!! 3 wonderful hours!! And then the men returned - and with fish!! They spearfish there - so Dave and Dee Dee drifted in the water and when they spotted a fish dove down and spear it. They scored 4 nice size grouper and about 15 conch. I was beaming with pride!! ( ok maybe not but I was happy that we know had fresh fish and conch!) We kept one grouper and about 5 conch. I was also trilled they Dee Dee filet and cleaned everything before it came on board Cat's Eye! It was a good day all around. Next stop was going to be Georgetown, it was a hard decision to make but we decided to move on from Rum Cay - knowing that there will be more nice, friendly people to meet. We sailed the Georgetown April 13th.
Here are some pictures of the dolphin that played with us when we sailed to Rum Cay! They where soo cute and beautiful!

So cool. Seeing dolphins never gets old!

Happy Dave after a successful day of fishing!

smoket taking a nap while we sailed to Georgetown - so glad we got those bean bag chairs!

We will hang in Georgetown till Sunday. Then off the explore the other bahama islands. We should be in florida by early May.

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