Bahama Mama

WE ARE IN THE BAHAMAS!!!!!!!We crossed on Wednesday, February 14th, and had a real bobsled ride across the gulf stream! There were 6-8' rollers behind us all the way across and when we saw the radio tower (first landmark) at West End we cheered! This is a beautiful marina in a gorgeous resort called Old Bahama Bay. There are boats here from all over the world, and once again we are one of the smaller boats...as Tom and I always say to each other "do you think the people in the big boats are having any more fun than we are?" No way!!!! Today we will take the city bus to Freeport about 25 miles away. From here we'll be island hopping to the Abacos...some of the islands are little more than pieces of dirt peeking out from the gorgeous tourquise Bahamas bank, but they offer good shelter for anchoring.

Boating is really a study in contrasts...on our way north to Palm Beach, we saw a helicopter coming at us right up the intracoastal waterway...I thought it was the coast guard until it landed on a private yacht right next to us!!!! It was a full sized helicopter and 4 people got out of it!!!! Contrast this with the boats we saw in the Keys that were just 1 step above floating homeless shelters!!! You see it all out here, just like on land I guess.