Marsh Harbour

Dolphins play in Sea Glass's crystal-clear bow wake as we traverse the Sea of Abaco

After only a couple hours of sleep, we struggled up to the office at Spanish Cay to present ourselves and our papers to Bahamian Customs & Immigration. Although the usual friendly Customs gal, Euline, was on maternity leave, fill-in inspector Tyrell Miller was just as efficient and friendly in getting us "legal" for our stay in the beautiful Family Islands. He even took our breakfast order!

After a delicious and filling breakfast - complete with sweet Bahama bread toast - we cast off lines and pointed Sea Glass towards Marsh Harbour. The much-feared Whale Cay passage was relatively benign - although we did take a few big rollers broadside that threatened to re-open that refrigerator again!

We docked in our slip at the "Beautiful Marsh Harbour Marina and Jib Room Restaurant" about 2:30pm and set-to giving Sea Glass a much-needed scrub down. Of course, klutz that I am, I managed to slip on the soapy flybridge steps and come crashing down onto the deck. I was lucky though, sustaining no damage more serious than a few bruises, a scraped elbow, a sore tailbone and minor embarrassment.

Fred was really looking forward to those promised ribs at the weekly Jib Room Rib Night - and he wasn't disappointed. He and Michael agreed that the ribs were great - but neither would say whether or not they were better than those BVI ribs they had been bragging about. Oh well. To ME, they are the best. Ever.

We'll sleep in tomorrow and then maybe venture out with the dinghy to see what kind of trouble we can get into. We have a couple days to spend in the Abacos before moving on ever southward to Eleuthera and the Exumas. Stay tuned.