Staniel Cay

Had a squall come through last night, early in the morning. Finally got the boat washed off. We were a little slow waking up and closing the hatches. The bed sheet got a little damp. Fortunately we were in an anchorage with 360 degree protection. Boats in anchorages with protection from the easterly trades winds, but open to the west had a rough couple hours as the squall came from the west.

Left around 9:00AM and were anchored at Staniel Cay by 1:00 PM. After we had lunch we dinghied to the Staniel Cay Yacht Club. We walked to the one store that was opened and ran into Heidi & David “Frosty” walking their dogs. They were staying on the dock at Staniel, because they were getting the prop on their outboard fixed. With two dogs you have to have shore access. They got very little sleep last night because the docks here are exposed to the west and they were being bounced against the docks a good part of the night.

We had a very windy night, but were fairly protected from the east winds by Staniel Cay, but the wind driven current from the cut just north of Staniel Cay kept a 2 or 3 knot current flowing east to west through our anchorage regardless of the changing tides.