Steve and Laura's Excellent Adventure

 Our second week in the Bahamas was just as nice as the first. We had a beautiful five-hour sail from Marsh Harbor to Green Turtle Cay on March 4th and stayed there until March 10th. We anchored in Coco Bay, and then took a short dinghy ride each morning and evening with Jake to north end of the island  The beach there looked like a scene from a postcard and there were lots of treasures to be found among the sand and seaweed, including sea urchin shells and sea biscuits. Picture-perfect view of the northern end of Green Turtle Cay The holes in the sea urchin shell (its exoskeleton) allow its spines to protrude through the shell.  Sea Urchin Exoskeleton   Underside of Sea Urchin (photo not mine)                        Sea Biscuit:  Also a sea urchin exoskeleton! The water here is unbelievably clear, and I spotted a beautiful crimson starfish from the dinghy during one of our morning trips to shore. Unfortunately, I didn't have my phone so I wasn't able to get a photo. I did find

All of our hard work and preparation has paid off!  Our first week in the Bahamas is exactly what I had been looking forward to! Sunset in Marsh Harbor Before I start getting into the details, I thought it would be good to start with a bit of geography to get everyone oriented to our location.  The first map below shows the southern tip of Florida in the upper left, Cuba in the lower left, and the Turks and Caicos in the lower right.  The rest is the Bahamas, and the circled bit are the Abacos, where we are currently located. The Bahamas Next, I've enlarged the map of the Abacos so that some of the larger towns are shown.  Our home base for our first week has been Marsh Harbor, which is near the center of the Abacos. The Abacos As I mentioned in my last entry, we had planned a day of fishing for wahoo on Sunday.  It was a gorgeous day and Steve fought and landed a large barracuda but we missed out on wahoo.  It was a worthwhile trip, though, and we learned a lot about the current i