Manjack

We get up early to head to the Man-o-War Coffee shop/ Museum/ Visitor Center which was closed yesterday. Had coffee and a breakfast burrito. After that we went for a walk to wait for the grocery store to open to snag a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream that I noticed yesterday. I brought a cooler bag to keep it from melting before we can get in to the freezer in the boat.

 

Lots of damaged buildings 3 years later

We leave Man-o-War at 9:30AM for Manjack Cay. We have to past through a cut called the Whale, because swell from the open ocean can surge through there for a rough passage. Today we have good conditions with a easy ride through. We normally stop at Green Turtle Cay, but we plan to catch a good weather window for an overnight sail from Great Sale Cay to Cape Canaveral. It could be at least another week before there is another good weather window to sail back to Florida.

We arrive at Manjack at 1:30PM. Lots more boats in the anchorage here than we have ever seen. We took our dinghy up the mangrove creek to look for turtles. There were lots of them, but too much wind rippled the water surface to get good photos. Linda counted 85, but there was actually a lot more. One the way back we rescue a young couple who damaged their dinghy outboard prop on the rocky bottom. We have a prop guard, they did not. We towed them back to their trawler. The father said he had warned them about hitting the prop on the bottom. I hope he has a spare.

 

Turtles

 

 

 

 

 

Art Walk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back on the boat I run the watermaker one last time and fill our tanks. I then finish by pickling the watermaker for long term storage, since I plan on selling it when we return to Florida.