Little Harbour Abacos

Jane got the 2400 to 0200 shift. She said that a thunderstorm was behind us the whole way and that she watched the lightning flash across the sky. Elizabeth and Christy had the 0200 to 0400 shift. They got a clear sky with stars and the moon. Every once in a while I checked on both of the shifts.

I got the 0400 to 0600 shift as that was the landfall shift. We approached Little Harbour channel right on time at 0630, just at the sun was fully coming up. I ran aground on the inner harbour entrance after Jane and I had a little misunderstanding over which bouy I was asking her the color of. The outer marker appeared to be a lobster pot and she was looking beyond that at another marker.

After a few minutes of finagling I managed to get the boat off of the beach and back into the channel. It was very shallow and most likely low tide. I did not have a tide chart. We picked up a mooring ball and crashed out for a few hours.

Later in the morning I awoke to find a very small harbour ringed by a beach and a large iron shore area with a big cave. I decided to get the windsurfer out and dinghyed it over to the beach where I set it up and sailed for a while. I think I am getting the hang of this.

I saw that the girls swam to shore so I sailed back in and left them with the windsurfer and headed over to Pete’s Pub. The only place in Little Harbour. It was around noon on a Saturday and the place was hopping. I grabbed and chair and watched the crowd. Everyone was ordering lunch so I did too. I felt guilty that Jane was not with me but I knew she would make her way in eventually. She did. We talked with the couple next to us for a few hours and they gave us some tips on places to visit.