Manjack Cay & GTC

We got up early and cast off from beautiful Treasure Cay Marina.  Although it was still overcast, there were no lingering thunderstorms or low clouds in sight.  Looked like it was going to be a hazy day - but hopefully a dry one!  First stop, Manjack Cay.

With a light southwest wind and a rising tide, we elected to run the very shallow Dont Rock Passage instead of going all the way east to Whale Cay.  No problems encountered as we passed Dont Rock and never saw less than 2' under our keels as we continued comfortably north.

Dont Rock (yes, that is a correct spelling, no apostrophe)

An hour later we rounded the north end of Manjack Cay and anchored in the beautiful little harbor.  The Mass Family quickly jumped into the skiff and headed for the beach to do some exploring and beachcombing.


Anchorage on the north end of Manjack Cay

After a few hours of fun, everyone returned to the boat where we cooked some burgers on the grill and relaxed a bit.  The kids were all excited about the many little lemon and blacktip sharks they saw swimming in the shallows near the beach - Larry was much more enthused about FINALLY finding a fishing float this trip.  Evidently, he has quite the collection of floats hanging on his back porch at home.  He found lots of them on the Exumas cruise last year...

Around one o'clock, we hoisted the anchor and moved back south towards our evening's dockage at the lovely Green Turtle Club.  The weather continued to cooperate (we even saw a bit of sun late in the afternoon!) and we tied up about an hour later.  The girls and Jen made a beeline to the beach to hunt sea glass, while Larry and Biz headed up to GTC's pool.  Green Turtle's internet was down due to a lightning strike the day before, so your intrepid captain climbed into the skiff and crossed White Sound to see if the Bluff House Resort had an internet connection.  Alas, no luck there (that's why this update is so late), however, the Bluff House's "Thirsty Thursday" special was in full swing at the bar.  Three Kalik Lights for ten bucks INCLUDING free conch fritters!  And, they were delicious conch fritters with huge chunks of conch meat.  So, I stayed there a bit...

Dinnertime came and we all went to Green Turtle Club's casual dining room for a fine meal. What makes it even nicer is the fact that the Club offers an "eat your dockage" plan, where your dockage is deducted directly off your restaurant bill.  SWEET.

The plan for Friday is (weather permitting) to head down to Great Guana Cay to see what kind of trouble we can generate at Nipper's and Grabber's.  Should be fun.