Beautiful Anchorages

Beautiful Anchorages

Our next stop was Manjack Cay where the property owners on the island have created several trails which they generously share with visitors.  We also had some exciting weather that blew in from our exposed west and built waves that rocked our floating home for a few hours.  When the storm passed we enjoyed a calm evening and the divers even got in a dive on the Atlantic before we left.

                                        

Powell Cay was a short hop north. Although there were no residents on the island, it did offer scenic beaches and a few trails that the Tucks explored and reported on to their lazy travel buddies. 

We did all dink over to the private island next door, Spanish Cay.  We unanimously declined to stay in their empty harbor since they charged a high season rate of $3 per foot.  We were welcome to walk the paths and eat at their restaurant. They didn’t even charge us to tie up our dinks although they mentioned the “private” status 600 times in our brief stopover and the $50 charge to clear customs there.  It did give us a good chance to see the facilities which included a nice pool, weight room and three beaches all a short walk from the docks.  Lunch was tasty in their air conditioned bar/restaurant.  Later we heard the key lime pie we passed on is the best in the Bahamas!  So we might have to return another time – at least for the pie.

Still working our way north and now a little west, we moved on to a fairly protected harbor on Allans Pensacola Cay.  These used to be two separate cays, but were joined by a hurricane, so hurricanes can build as well as destroy. Back in the early days of the space program a tracking station was located on the Atlantic beaches of Pensacola.  Now there is a path across the island to the old tracking site and lots of “signing trees” where visitors leave tokens or signs of their visit. Some of the objects are interesting and others are trash just recycled as ART.  As the winds changed we moved to the Atlantic side of the islands hoping for a less rocky night and walked the beaches once again….