Manjack, Cleaning our bottom

In the morning at high tide around 10:00 am we dinghy up the mangrove creeks on the island. Linda counts at least 30 turtles. Unfortunately there is enough wind, that ripples on the surface in the protected creek reduces the visibility. 

 

Underwater view of fleeing turtle

Mangrove Channel

From there we head out to the ocean side. It is rather rough so instead of heading out to the reef we quickly head south and back through a small cut to the lee side of the island boarding the south side of the anchorage. We stop at a beach where we found lots of dead sea biscuits and conch on our first trip, but do not find much this time. Mark and Karen zip back to their boat and we poke along the shore line as we head back. Crab Cay here seems to have one lone pig that we can see on the beach from our boat. For some reason there are a number of “Piggy Beaches” in the Bahamas to attract tourists, but this is the first I heard of pigs here. I guess someone figures they can get tourists to feed their livestock. Does not always work out so well. Last year a number of pigs died at the original “Piggy beach” in the Exumas, because they ingested too much sand during a period of drought. Most people toss food in the sand or saltwater.

Lone Pig Beach

Later back at our boat Mark and Karen zip over on their dinghy. They had not noticed us poking along the shore and checking out the pig. They thought we may have had engine problems and when back to the beach we stopped on to find us.


My afternoon project is cleaning the bottom of our boat. Unfortunately both my masks keep leaking which made it rather annoying. Hard to get a good seal with a mustash. Normally face down, snorkeling is not a problem, but cleaning the boat bottom, face up, I get a lot more leakage. Linda suggests some Vaseline , which helps. Even with a neoprene jacket I am a little cold when I get out, so I decide to bake some brownies. We have lots of brownie mixes for happy hour get togethers, but Karen avoids wheat, so we have not been using them up as fast as we planned.