Goodbye Exumas, Hello Abacos

It has been a month since our last post...GULP. So here are some highlights - 

After our second trip to Conception we returned to the Exumas to meet a new batch of visitors. First we picked up Jenny and Brian from George Town and had a wonderful week of Exuma Out Island adventuring. We enjoyed awesome snorkeling, beaches and sunsets as we made our way back to Staniel Cay, hitting some of our favorite spots on the way. We had so much fun with them!

In Staniel we picked up Cassie the day after Jenny and Brian flew out. We continued north with Cassie, hitting more of our favorites in the northern Exumas en route to Nassau. Again we had super weather, great underwater adventures and tons of fun. Cassie helped to spear some giant lobsters the last day of the season. 

In Nassau we said goodbye to Cassie and then spent a couple days living it up at the Atlantis water park. We left Nassau on a close haul port tack for a 55 mile trip to Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera. We had a nice week traveling around the northern parts of Eleuthera, spending our last couple days at Egg Island. This spot turned out to be a favorite. We anchored in a small sand patch surrounded by clear water and healthy reef. Calm conditions allowed us to do lots of snorkeling. 

We left Eleuthera under darkness for the 50 mile trip to Little Harbor, Abaco, closing the chapter on our time in the Exumas. 

We have now been in the Abacos for about 2 weeks. It certainly has a different feel than the Exumas and Conception. Much more development and many more people. 

We have been slowly winding our way north, stopping in places such as Hopetown, Elbow Cay, Man o' War Cay, Great Cuana Cay, and now Treasure Cay. We will continue this slow push north for about 2 more weeks. We anticipate making the hop to the East Coast sometime after that, depending on weather. Our route will also be very weather dependent, but for now we are aiming somewhere north of Florida and south of Cape Hatteras...we shall see. 

In other news, Momo is for sale! More details here: http://momoforsale.blogspot.com/

It was a little out of character for us but we decided to live it up for two days at the Atlantis, however, on a shoe-string budget.  We figured out that if we took a slip in a grungy marina in Nassau they would give us free passes to Atlantis water park and aquarium.  Heck yeah!

We have had so many wonderful snorkeling adventures throughout the Bahamas but I always wish Scout could experience what we are seeing.  It is probably a funny sight to see - we usually end up snorkeling with the three of us in the water reporting things we see to Scout who is in the dinghy being towed along side of us. We have also tried glass bottom buckets, glass bottom dinghies and glass containers but they just aren't the same.  Scout finally got her golden opportunity! 

Glass calm day and an artsy photo-op.

Not many people get to see and can claim to have caught a real sea-horse - pretty cool!

In the famous words of our favorite movie character, ''let's go fly a kite'.

One thing I am pretty proud of is the amount of reading this lifestyle has allowed us to do with our kids. Lucy has learned to read on this trip and is pretty self-motivated.  Also, note the apple shirt and striped bathing suit under the pink panties. 

Pondering things that make whales vomit.