Bahamas Adventure 2023: The Final Chapter
The weather during our last week and a half in the Bahamas was a mix of windy and calm, primarily spent traveling between islands or waiting out rough weather, but also punctuated with a few more snorkeling opportunities. We motor-sailed from Shroud Cay to Thomas Cay - a very protected anchorage - on April 29th, in preparation for high winds expected to arrive the next day. We managed to squeeze in an afternoon snorkel and found a veritable conch nursery among widely scattered coral heads. Jan also spotted a slipper lobster - another creature I had never seen before. The winds arrived, as expected, the next day so we did "indoor" stuff like laundry, "making" (desalinating) water and baking banana bread. Yum :-) The inhospitable weather only lasted one day, and we spent the next day expanding our snorkeling radius. There was a cut to the ocean side of Thomas Cay that passed by a fairly high bluff, which was beautiful in its own right. The current through the cut was